“Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.”

—  Derek Landy

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

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Irish children's writer 1974

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