“Hell, right now my only weapons were Obnoxious and Snark, and I intended to use them whenever possible.”
― Diana Rowland, quote from Touch of the Demon
“Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.”
― Diana Rowland, quote from Touch of the Demon
“This dude could read Pat the Bunnyand make it terrifying.”
― Diana Rowland, quote from Touch of the Demon
“I leveled a scowl at him. “Is there
anything in our agreement that says I can’t
call you names?”
He crouched and added a few touches
to the diagram. A very faint smile curved
his mouth. “No.”
My own mouth twitched. “So,
hypothetically, if I were to call you an
asshole, there’d be no reprisals?” I asked
with an innocent look. “Hypothetically, of
course.”
Idris glanced up sharply, then hissed
and drew back his hand as the sigil he was
working on stung him.
“Nothing of that sort is covered by the
agreement,” was Mzatal’s mild reply.
I chuckled under my breath. “I think
I’ll just call you Boss.”
He glanced over at me with a raised
eyebrow. I smiled sweetly in response.
Mzatal straightened, turned fully to me,
hands behind back and head lowered
slightly, and still with the faint hint of a
smile. “There could be consequences.”
I shrugged, still smiling. “What fun
would it be if there weren’t?”
Mzatal lifted his head. “None
whatsoever,” he said, his face betraying a
hint of amusement as he moved to the
center of the diagram.”
― Diana Rowland, quote from Touch of the Demon
“I have missed you. And I did not know anything was missing.”
― Diana Rowland, quote from Touch of the Demon
“Mzatal gave a decisive nod. “I will
manage this. It cannot continue to interfere
with his work. Too much is at stake.”
I raised an eyebrow. “How do you
intend to manage it?”
“I will tell him the truth and outline the
consequences.”
I was surprised Mzatal didn’t shrivel
away from the look I gave him. “Dude.
Seriously? You expect him to stop
crushing on me because you forbid it?”
Mzatal frowned, contemplative.
“Perhaps not ideal given the entanglement
of human emotions, though there is no time
for it to drag on,” he said, as if he actually
knew what he was talking about. “If he
knows you have no interest and sees how
his distractions have affected his work, he
will subside enough for now.”
My withering look became glacial.
“Boss, you’re completely awesome in
many ways, but you are so off-base with
this it’s not even funny.” I rolled my eyes.
“I’ve already ramped ‘No Interest’ up to
eleven on the dial and, at this point, he
doesn’t care if his work suffers.” I took a
big gulp of coffee, then ran my fingers
through my tangled hair. “Let me deal with
it. Normally I’m not into direct
confrontation with this sort of shit, but
there’s isn’t enough time for it to fizzle out
on its own.”
Mzatal regarded me with that damned
unreadable mask which he’d slipped on as
I was talking. Great. Lords weren’t much
on being told they were wrong, but it had
to be said.”
― Diana Rowland, quote from Touch of the Demon
Diana Rowland
Born place: in The United States
Born date October 20, 2018
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“Aquella noche tuve un sueño agitado. Al despertarme casi me asusté, en la madrugada, no recordé inmediatamente los hechos del día anterior y hasta que tuve plena conciencia miré con sorpresa la confusa realidad que me rodeaba. Pues no nos despertamos de golpe, sino en un complejo y paulatino proceso en que vamos reconociendo el mundo originario como quien viene de un larguísimo viaje por continentes lejanos e imprecisos, y en que después de siglos de existencia oscura hemos perdido la memoria de nuestra existencia anterior, y sólo recordamos de ella fragmentos incoherentes. Y después de un tiempo inconmensurable, la luz del día empieza tenuemente a iluminar las salidas de aquellos laberintos angustiosos y entonces corremos con ansiedad hacia el mundo diurno. Y llegamos al borde del sueño como náufragos exhaustos que logran alcanzar la playa después de una larga lucha con la tempestad. Y allí, semiinconsicnetes todavía, pero ya tranquilizándonos poco a poco, empezamos a reconocer con gratitud algunos de los atributos del mundo cotidiano, el tranquilo y confortable universo de la civilización.”
― Ernesto Sabato, quote from On Heroes and Tombs
“I was just flirting with girls whom I had tingly feelings for because... well, you know... friendship.”
― Hannah Hart, quote from Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Slaughterhouse-five: The Children's Crusade, A Duty-dance with Death
“The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.”
― China Miéville, quote from Kraken
“One day isn’t your whole life, Murph.” He waits until I look at him. “A day is just a day.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Letters to the Lost
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