Author: Cherie Priest

Cites

• Thomas P. Kettell (1)
  • IN: Boneshaker (2009) Fiction, Alternate History, American
    EPIGRAPH: In this age of invention the science of arms has made great progress. In fact, the most remarkable inventions have been made since the prolonged wars of Europe in the early part of the century, and the short Italian campaign of France in 1859 served to illustrate how great a power the engines of destruction can exert.
    FROM: History of the Great Rebellion, (1865), Book, US
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Boneshaker (2009) Fiction, Alternate History, American
    EPIGRAPH: From its commencement to its close, giving an account of its origin, The Secession of the Southern States, and the Formation of the Confederate Government, the concentration of the Military and Financial resources of the federal government, the development of its vast power, the raising, organizing, and equipping of the contending armies and navies; lucid, vivid, and accurate descriptions of battles and bombardments, sieges and surrender of forts, captured batteries, etc., etc.; the immense financial resources and comprehensive measures of the government, the enthusiasm and patriotic contributions of the people, together with sketches of the lives of all the eminent statesmen and military and naval commanders, with a full and complete index. From Official Sources (1862)
    FROM: From Unlikely Episodes in Western History, (2009), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Family Plot (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She buried them under the marble stone, Then she turned and went on home.
    FROM: The Cruel Mother, (None), Poem, UK
• Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1)
  • IN: Dreadnought (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Then bring me here a breastplate, And a helm before ye fly, And I will gird my woman’s form, And on the ramparts die!
    FROM: Marguerite of France, (1832), Poem, France
• Louisa May Alcott (1)
  • IN: Dreadnought (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I want something to do.
    FROM: Louisa May Alcott upon announcing her intention to serve as a nurse at the Washington Hospital during the Civil War. To be filed under, “Be careful what you wish for.” (Hospital Sketches), (1863), Book, US
• Abraham Lincoln (1)
  • IN: Ganymede (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nor must Uncle Sam’s web feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.
    FROM: From a letter to John Conkling, August 26, 1863, (1863), Letter, US
• Winston Churchill (1)
  • IN: Fiddlehead (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
    FROM: 1942-11-10 00:00:00, (1942), NULL, UK
• Taylor Coleridge, Samuel (1)
  • IN: The Inexplicables (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So I became a dreamer, and acquired an indisposition to all bodily activity; and I was fretful and inordinately passionate, and as I could not play at anything, and was slothful, i was despised and hated by the boys.
    FROM: in a letter to his friend Thomas Poole, (1797), Letter, UK