Diana Rowland quotes

“Ryan stared at me as I pulled my phone out to see who was calling at this late hour. “You have the Fraggle Rock theme song as your ring tone,” he said, with a bemused look on his face. “You are so weird.”
-- Diana Rowland

Source : Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.248, Bantam

#Song Quotes #Phones Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“You’re pretty smart for a Fed.” “I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency,”
-- Diana Rowland

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“I told him about me being a summoner, and what that entailed. At the end of he simply gave a long sigh. “Why couldn’t you simply be an alcoholic like all the other detectives?” I grinned. “Demon summoning has less vomiting!”
-- Diana Rowland

Source : Diana Rowland (2011). “Secrets of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Three”, p.202, Penguin

#Long Quotes #Vomiting Quotes #Detectives Quotes

“Too easy to lose the way. Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you are and where you should be. Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.”
-- Diana Rowland

Source : Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.362, Bantam

#Eyelashes Quotes #Way Quotes #Unraveling Quotes

“Still, waking up this early was just wrong. “Why can’t people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?” I whined.”
-- Diana Rowland

Source : Diana Rowland (2011). “My Life as a White Trash Zombie: A White Trash Zombie Novel”, p.45, Penguin

#People Quotes #Wake Up Quotes #Waking Quotes

“Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.”
-- Diana Rowland

Source : Diana Rowland (2012). “Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five”, p.58, Penguin

#Fall Quotes #Men Quotes #Eating Quotes

“Hell, right now my only weapons were Obnoxious and Snark, and I intended to use them whenever possible.”
-- Diana Rowland

Source : Diana Rowland (2012). “Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five”, p.16, Penguin

#Use Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Hell Quotes

“When did I turn into a needywhiny angsty idiot who needed to be swept off her feet? She snorted then started running again, forcing me into a brief sprint to catch up. We're conditioned from birth she said. I swear to god,if I ever have a daughter I'll ban all of the Disney princesses from the house. Except Mulan. She kicks ass.”
-- Diana Rowland

#Running Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Princess Quotes

“You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.”
-- Diana Rowland

Source : Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.321, Bantam

#Smart Quotes #Agency Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.”

“What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.”

Source : Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin

“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

“If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

“My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.”

“I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.”

Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

“When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.”

“The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.”

“The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.”

“If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.”