Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Cites
- NULL (1)
- IN: The Tree Bride (2004) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: All kings must see hell at least once.
Hence you have for a little while
been subjected to this great sorrow.
FROM: Mahabharata (translated by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan), (1997), NULL, India
- John Keats (1)
- IN: The Holder of the World (1993) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time...
FROM: Ode on a Grecian Urn, (1820), Poem, UK
- Octavio Paz (1)
- IN: Desirable Daughters (2002) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancient cleaved has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, Easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.
FROM: Sanskrit Verse (adapted by author), (None), NULL, Mexico
- William Makepeace Thackeray (2)
- IN: Miss New India (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Which of us is happy in this world?
Which of us has his desire?
FROM: Vanity Fair, (1848), Novel, UK
- IN: Miss New Inda (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Which of us is happy in this world?
Which of us has his desire?
FROM: Vanity Fair, (1848), Novel, UK
- James Gleick (1)
- IN: Jasmine (1989) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The new geometry mirrors a universe that is rough, not rounded, scabrous, not smooth. It is a geometry of the pitted, pocked, and broken up, the twisted, tangled, and intertwined.
FROM: Chaos, (1987), Book, US