Author: Alison Croggon

Cites

• Mahmoud Darwish (1)
  • IN: The River and the Book (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: O my name: where are we now? Tell me: What is now? What is tomorrow? What's time, what's place, what's old, what's new? One day we shall become what we want
    FROM: Mural, translated by Sargon Boulos, (None), NULL, Palestine
• Emily Brontë (1)
  • IN: Black Spring (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: So stood I, in Heaven's glorious sun, And in the glare of Hell; My spirit drank a mingled tone, Of seraph's song, and demon's moan; What my soul bore, my soul alone Within itself may tell!
    FROM: My Comforter, (1846), Poem, UK
• Freidrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: Black Spring (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: HEre and there on earth we may encounter a kind of continuation of love in which this possessive craving of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and lust for possession - a shared higher thirst for an idael above them. But who knows such love? Who has experienced it? Its right name is friendship.
    FROM: The Gay Science, (1882), Book, Germany
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Black Spring (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
    FROM: Ecclesiastes 1:18, (-165), Bible, NULL