Author: Ari Berk

Cites

• Elsa Barker (2)
  • IN: Lych Way (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you have read folktales of this god and that, you have perhaps spoken patronizingly of the old mythmakers and thanked your lucky stars that you lived in a more enlightened age. But those old storytellers were the really enlightened ones, for they saw into another world and recorded what they saw. Many of the world's favourite gods are said to have lived upon earth as men. They have so lived. Does that idea startle you? How does a man become a god, and how does a god become a man? Have you ever wondered?
    FROM: Letters from a Living Dead Man, (1914), NULL, US
• George Mackay Brown (2)
  • IN: Lych Way (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A bed is laid in a secret corner, For the three agonies -- love, birth, death -- That are made beautiful with ceremony.
    FROM: The Finished House, (2005), Poem, UK
• (suggested)Bishop Henri de Blois (1)
  • IN: Mistle Child (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here is the book of thy Descent... Here begin the Terrors. Here begin the Miracles...
    FROM: Perlesvaus, (1225), Book, UK
• Jacquetta Hawkes (1)
  • IN: Mistle Child (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There the patient houses grow While through the rooms the flesh must flow. Mothers', daughters', fathers', sons', On and on the river runs...
    FROM: A Devon Signpost, (None), NULL, UK
• Denis Diderot (1)
  • IN: Mistle Child (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thus he arrived before a great castle, on whose facade were carved the words: I belong to no one and to all. Before entering you were already here. When you leave you shall remain.
    FROM: Jacques Le Fataliste, (1773), Novel, France