Author: Brian Doyle

Cites

• Robert Louis Stevenson (1)
  • IN: The Plover (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: These last two years I have been much at sea, and I have never wearied; and never once did I lose my fidelity to blue water and a ship... my exile to the place of schooners and islands can be in no sense regarded as a calamity.
    FROM: to Henry James, (1890), NULL, UK
• George Harrison (1)
  • IN: The Plover (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Every one of us has within us a drop of [the] ocean... just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean.
    FROM: NULL, (1974), Interview, UK
• Annie Dillard (1)
  • IN: The Plover (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
    FROM: Teaching a Stone to Talk, (1982), Essay, US

Cited by

• Amelia Kahaney (1)
  • IN: The Brokenhearted (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let us dream of blood and pulse and ebb and flow. Let us consider the tide and beat and throb and hum. Let us unweave the web of artery and vein, the fluttering jetties of the valves, the coursing of ions from cell to cell, the sodium that is your soul, the potassium that is your personality, the calcium that is your character.
    FROM: The Wet Engine: Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart, (2005), Book, US