“Akri done left his Simi on his arm for far too long. She done got tired and cranky. (Simi)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Acheron
Is... Not Nicole Kidman (2005)
“Akri done left his Simi on his arm for far too long. She done got tired and cranky. (Simi)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Acheron
Peter Jennings (1938–2005) News anchor
Memo to his staff announcing that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. (April 2005)
“You are not mean. Cranky is different.”
Peter S. Beagle (1939) American writer
Source: In Calabria (2017), p. 119
“Excruciating agony makes me cranky.”
Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer
Source: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
An Oral History of Popular Music (1989)
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p.169