Author: C.J Box

Cites

• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Highway (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Be self-controlled, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
    FROM: Bible, 1 Peter 5:8, (100), Bible, NULL
• Alison Krauss (1)
  • IN: The Highway (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Two Highways lay before me, which one will I choose down one lane, i'd find happiness and down another I would lose there is no one that I can trust, I must decide alone My decision is an awful one, which road will take me home
    FROM: Two Highways, (1989), Song, US
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
  • IN: Endangered (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men are what their mothers made them
    FROM: The Conduct of Life, (1860), Book, US
• Eminem (1)
  • IN: Endangered (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Therefore I did not know that I would grow to be My mother's evil seed and do these evil deeds.
    FROM: Evil Deeds, (2004), Song, US
• Cormac McCarthy (2)
  • IN: Off the Grid (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• Theodore Roosevelt (1)
  • IN: Badlands (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: After nightfall, the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever...
    FROM: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, (1885), Book, US
• Annie Dillard (1)
  • IN: Below Zero (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. . . . We are moral creatures, then, in an amoral world. The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die—does not care if it itself grinds to a halt.
    FROM: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, (1974), Book, US
• Guy Sajer (1)
  • IN: Blood Trail (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It’s strange how often human beings die without any kind of style.
    FROM: The Forgotten Soldier, (1965), Book, France
• William Carlos Williams (1)
  • IN: Blood Trail (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sleep! There is hunting in heaven— Sleep safe till tomorrow.
    FROM: Peace on Earth, (1913), Poem, Puerto-Rico/US
• NULL (4)
  • IN: Cold Wind (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
    FROM: Age old medical school admonition, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Free Fire (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: YELLOWSTONE ACT, 1872 AN ACT TO SET APART A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND LYING NEAR THE HEADWATERS OF THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER AS A PUBLIC PARK Approved March 1, 1872 (17 Stat. 32) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River . . . is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a publicpark or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people; and all persons who shall locate or settle upon or occupy the same, or any part thereof, except as hereinafter provided,shall be considered trespassers and removed therefrom. (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 21.)
    FROM: NULL, (1872), NULL, US
  • IN: Winterkill (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: winterkill ['win•ter•kil] vt to kill (as a plant or animal) by, or to die as a result of, exposure to winter weather conditions
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Vicious Circle (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: vi.cious cir.cle noun 1. a sequence of reciprocal cause and effect in which two or more elements intensify aand aggravate each other, leading inexorably to a worsening of the situation.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1)
  • IN: In Plain Sight (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
    FROM: Babylon Revisited, (1931), Short story, US
• O. E. Rolvaag (1)
  • IN: In Plain Sight (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The great plain drinks the blood of Christian men and is satisfied.
    FROM: Giants in the Earth, (1927), Novel, Norway/US
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1)
  • IN: Nowhere to Run (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned
    FROM: Democracy in America, (1835), NULL, US
• Earth First! (1)
  • IN: Savage Run (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No compromise in defense of Mother Earth. Earth first!
    FROM: Motto of Earth First!, a radical environmental advocacy group, (1980), NULL, US
• Mark Knopfler (1)
  • IN: Breaking Point (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ou can still get gas in Heaven, and drink in Kingdom Come. In the meantime, I’m cleaning my gun.
    FROM: Cleaning my Gun, (2009), Song, UK
• Roger Tory Peterson (1)
  • IN: The Master Falconer (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man has emerged from the shadows of antiquity with a peregrine on his wrist.
    FROM: Birds Over America, (1948), Book, US
• Voltaire (1)
  • IN: Stone Cold (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It’s not inequality which is the real misfortune, it’s dependence
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Williams J.R, Hank (1)
  • IN: Stone Cold (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I’ve got a shotgun, a rifle and a four-wheel drive And a country boy can survive
    FROM: A Country Boy Can Survive, (1982), Song, US
• Bob Dylan (1)
  • IN: Off the Grid (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To live outside the law, you must be honest.
    FROM: Absolutely Sweet Marie, (1966), Song, US
• Raymond Chandler (1)
  • IN: Vicious Circle (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thers is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
    FROM: The Long Goodbye, (1953), Novel, US/England