Author: Charles Dickens

Cited by

• Lee Jing-Jing (1)
  • IN: If I Could Tell You (2013) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: A multitude of people yet solitude
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
• Graham Swift (2)
  • IN: Waterland (1983) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ours was the marsh country...
    FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
• Shamini Flint (2)
  • IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (2008) Fiction, Asian Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
  • IN: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (2009) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
• Charlotte Mendelson (1)
  • IN: Almost English (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is a most miserable thing to be ashamed of home.
    FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
• Sarah Rees Brennan (1)
  • IN: Tell the Wind and Fire (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Tell Wind and Fire where to stop . . . but don't tell me.
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
• Cassandra Clare (1)
  • IN: Clockwork Prince (2011) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. . . . Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing. . . .
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
• Gregory Maguire (1)
  • IN: Egg & Spoon (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Society... has taken upon itself the general arrangement of the whole system of spoons.
    FROM: Bleak House, (1853), Novel, UK
• Helen Eve (1)
  • IN: Stella (2014) Contemporary, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall; not so high but that I could . . . see . . that Estella was walking away from me even then. But she seemed to be everywhere . . . She had her back towards me, and held her pretty brown hair spread out in her two hands, and never looked round, and passed out of my view directly . . . I saw her pass among the extinguished fires, and ascend some light iron stairs, and go out by a gallery high overhead, as if she were going out into the sky.
    FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
• Gena Showalter (1)
  • IN: Firstlife (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
• Aaron Starmer (1)
  • IN: Spontaneous (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Call the death by any name Your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will. It is the same death eternally -- inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only -- Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.
    FROM: Bleak House, (1853), Novel, UK
• Sharon Bolton (1)
  • IN: A Dark And Twisted Side (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And according to the success with which you put this and that together, you get a woman and a fish apart, or a Mermaid in combination. And Mr Inspector could turn out nothing better than a Mermaid, which no judge and Jury would believe in.
    FROM: Our Mutual Friend, (1865), NULL, UK
• Dan Vyleta (1)
  • IN: Smoke (2016) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Those who study the physical sciences, and bring them to bear upon the health of Man, tell us that if the noxious particles that rise from vitiated air were palpable to the sight, we should see them lowering in a dense black cloud above such haunts, and rolling slowly on to corrupt the better portion of a town. But if the moral pestilence that rises with them. . could be made discernible too, how terrible the revelation!
    FROM: Dombey and Son, (1848), NULL, UK
• Lucy Ellmann (1)
  • IN: Mimi (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They work; but don't you think they overdo it?... And am I never to have a change of air, because the bees don't?
    FROM: Our Mutual Friend, (1865), Novel, UK
• Sharyn McCrumb (1)
  • IN: If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him… (1995) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: Pray do not, therefore, be inducted to suppose that I ever write merely to amuse, or without an object.
    FROM: Letter to Hon. Mrs Edward Cooper, (1852), Letter, UK
• John Connolly (1)
  • IN: The Burning Soul (2011) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Put the case, Pip, that here was one pretty little child out of the heap, who could be saved;… the legal adviser had this power: ‘I know what you did, and how you did it… Part with the child… Give the child into my hands.’
    FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
• Christopher Fowler (1)
  • IN: The Water Room (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration
    FROM: Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, (1844), Novel, UK
• Jennifer Harlow (1)
  • IN: Death takes a holiday (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered...
    FROM: Martin Chuzzlewit, (1844), Novel, UK
• Raj Kamal Jha (1)
  • IN: She Will Build Him A City (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Midnight had come upon the crowded city. The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the Madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all.
    FROM: Oliver Twist, (1838), Novel, UK
• Peter Straub (2)
  • IN: Shadowland (1980) Fiction, Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.
    FROM: A Christmas Tree, (1986), Short story, UK
  • IN: If You Could See Me Now (1977) Fiction, Horror, American
    EPIGRAPH: ‘There’s a long statement in the papers, sir, about a murder… But someone is always being murdered, and I didn’t read it.’
    FROM: David Copperfield, (1850), Novel, UK
• Peter Tremayne (1)
  • IN: The Fiery Devil (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A curse upon the fiery devil, thundering along so smoothly. . He loitered about the station, waiting until one should stay to call there; and when one did, and was detached for water, he stood parallel with it, watching its huge wheels and brazen front and thinking what a cruel power and might it held. Ugh! To see the great wheels slowly turning and to think of being run down and crushed!
    FROM: Chapter 55, Dombey and Son, (1848), Novel, UK
• Mary Alice Monroe (1)
  • IN: A Lowcountry Christmas (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
    FROM: A Christmas Carol, (1843), Novella, US
• Kate Saunders (1)
  • IN: The Secrets of Wishtide (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There has been a time since... when I have asked myself the question, would it have been better for little Em'ly to have had the waters close above her head that morning in my sight; and when I have answerd Yes, it would have been.
    FROM: David Copperfield, (1850), Novel, UK
• Kate Rhodes (1)
  • IN: River of Souls (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The river had an awful look, the buildings on the banks were muffled in black shrouds, and the reflected lights seemed to originate deep in the water, as if the spectres of suicides were holding them to show where they went down. The wild moon and clouds were as restless as an evil conscience in a tumbled bed, and the very shadow of the immensity of London seemed to lie oppressively upon the water.
    FROM: Night Walks, (1869), Book, UK
• Dan Simmons (1)
  • IN: Hard as Nails (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Hard," replied the Dodger. "As nails," added Charley Bates.
    FROM: Twist, Oliver, (1838), Novel, UK
• Dean Koontz (2)
  • IN: Whispers (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Living and The Dead The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a distant room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.
    FROM: NULL, (NULL), NULL, UK
  • IN: Odd Interlude (2012) Fiction, thriller, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh! They’re too beautiful to live, much too beautiful.
    FROM: Nicholas Nickleby, (1839), Novel, UK
• Tony Parsons (2)
  • IN: Catching the Sun (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
    FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
  • IN: The Hanging Club (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A great multitude has already assembled; the windows were filled with people smoking and playing cards to beguile the time; the crowd were pushing, quarrelling, and joking. Every thing told of life and animation, but one dark cluster of objects in the very centre of all — the black stage, the cross-beam, the rope, and all the hideous apparatus of death.
    FROM: Oliver Twist, (1838), Novel, UK
• Caitlin Kittredge (1)
  • IN: Street Magic (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.
    FROM: Our Mutual Friend, (1865), Novel, UK
• G. M. Malliet (1)
  • IN: A Fatal Winter (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
    FROM: A Christmas Carol, (1843), Novel, UK
• Gabrielle Zevin (1)
  • IN: All These Things I've Done (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
    FROM: David Copperfield, (1850), Novel, UK
• Jennifer Weiner (1)
  • IN: Then Came You (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “So,” said Estella, “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
    FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
• Maureen Jennings (1)
  • IN: Season of Darkness (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness.
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
• Kerry Greenwood (1)
  • IN: Blood and Circuses (1994) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: People must be amused, Squire... they can't always be a-working, nor yet they can't always be a-learning. Make the best of us, not the worst.
    FROM: Hard Times, (1854), Novel, UK
• Jane Casey (1)
  • IN: The Reckoning (2011) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: It is strange with how little notice: good, bad or indifferent, a man may live and die in London... There is a numerous class of people in this metropolis who seem not to possess a single friend, and whom nobody appears to care for.'
    FROM: Sketches by Boz, (1836), Book, UK
• Jenny Colgan (1)
  • IN: The Christmas Surprise (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
    FROM: A Christmas Carol, (1843), Novel, UK
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Other things are all very well in their way, but give me Blood.... We say, 'There it is! that's Blood!' It is an actual matter of fact. We point it out. It admits of no doubt.... We must have Blood, you know."
    FROM: David Copperfield, (1850), Novel, UK
• Min Jin Lee (1)
  • IN: Pachinko (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.
    FROM: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, (1844), Novel, UK
• Carla Neggers (1)
  • IN: A Knights Bridge Christmas (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “I cannot change! I cannot! It’s not that I’m impenitent, it’s just… Wouldn’t it be better if I just went home to bed?”
    FROM: A Christmas Carol, (1843), Book, UK
• Jake Arnott (1)
  • IN: He Kills Coppers (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For I ain't, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices.'
    FROM: Our Mutual Friend, (1865), Novel, UK
• Margaret Atwood (1)
  • IN: Hag-Seed (2016) Psychological Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: … although there are nice people on the stage, there are some who would make your hair stand on end.
    FROM: Conversation with his daughter, Katey, (1870), Coversation, UK
• Various authors, edited by Gayford, Cecily (1)
  • IN: Tales from the Dead of Night (2013) Fiction, Anthology Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Two travellers sat alone in a train carriage. 'Do you believe in ghosts?' asked one, by way of conversation. 'Yes,' said the other, and vanished.
    FROM: Three Ghost Stories", (1866), Short story, UK
• Jennifer Ziegler (1)
  • IN: How NOT to be Popular (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
• Roberto Tiraboschi (1)
  • IN: The Apothecary's Shop (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But, my dear fellow, nothing in the world that ever you have heard of Venice, is equal to the magnificent and stupendous reality. The wildest visions of the Arabian Nights are nothing to the piazza of Saint Mark, and the first impression of the inside of the Church. The gorgeous and wonderful reality of Venice is beyond the fancy of the wildest dreamer. Opium couldn't build such a place, and enchantment couldn't shadow it forth in a vision. All that I have heard of it, read of it in truth or fiction, fancied of it, is left thousands of miles behind. You know that I am liable to disappointment in such things from over-expectation, but Venice is above, beyond, out of all reach of coming near, the imagination of a man. It has never been rated high enough. It is a thing you would shed tears to see.
    FROM: Extract from a letter to John Forster, (1844), Letter, UK
• Jean Ferry (1)
  • IN: The Conductor and Other Tales (2013) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: I have started up so vividly impressed by it, that its fury has yet seemed raging in my quiet room, in the still night. I dream of it sometimes, though at lengthened and uncertain intervals, to this hour. I have an association between it and a stormy wind, or the lightest mention of a sea-shore, as strong as any of which my mind is conscious... As plainly as I behold what happened, I will try to write it down. I do not recall it, but see it done; for it happens again before me.
    FROM: David Copperfield, Chapter LV, (1850), Book, UK
• Sybille Bedford (1)
  • IN: A Compass Error (1968) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: You are young, sir,' he said, 'you are young; you are very very young sir.'
    FROM: David Copperfield, (1850), Novel, UK