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Mandy

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Mandy’s Quotes

“Look at it! It's ginger! I shall have to hide until it's grown out! Despair! Anguish! Horror!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: drama-queen, howl, humour, wizard-howl

4 likes

“I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

tags: fantasy, fiction, humor, young-adult

387 likes

“when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

tags: make-believe, reality

2 likes

“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

tags: foolish, foolish-people, ignorant, incuriosity, uninformed, uninformed-opinion

501 likes

“I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

402 likes

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