Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

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Quotes by Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"You’re not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"He didn’t remember the very first time he actually died very well. It wasn’t as bad as remediation, but he remembered being afraid and worried… and when he found himself alive again a few hours later with Mearth’s wild green eyes peering down at him, he remembered still being afraid and worried. It was strange, he thought, to be afraid of being alive… but being alive was worse than being dead in his mind."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"What’s supposed to be and what is, are two very different things."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that’s not a good thing!"

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"I don’t like psychiatrists,” Alecto told her. “Not because they don’t think I’m real, but because they have no idea what they’re doing."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"In keeping with your policy of bringing Pollution the latest in death and violence, and in living colour, there’s going to be something entirely different… death without remediation."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven years old. She found plastic swans on strings and red crystal cardinals. She found a blue-and-white rocking horse covered in glitter. She found a porcelain Santa Claus. She found that she couldn’t figure out where the hell time had gone."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"There are some things in the past that… that just aren’t meant to be viewed."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"Alecto, do you think we have fallen from heaven, or do you think we are falling towards it?"

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?"

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

"I don’t want any other friends! They’d never be as good a friend as you are."

Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series