Author: D. H. Lawrence
Cited by
- Sarah Combs (2)
- IN: The Light Fantastic (2016) Contemporary, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We've got to love, no matter how many skies have fallen.
FROM: NULL, (1944), NULL, UK
- Barbara Taylor Bradford (3)
- IN: Secrets from the Past (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: In my own very self, I am part of my family.
FROM: Apocolypse, (1930), Novel, UK
- IN: Secrets From the Past (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: In my own very self, I am part of my family.
FROM: Apocalypse, (1931), Book, UK
- IN: Secrets from the past (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: In my own very self, I am part of my family.
FROM: Apocalypse, (1931), Book, UK
- T.C Boyle (1)
- IN: The Harder they Come (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The Essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
FROM: Studies in Classic American Literature, (1923), Book, UK
- Jennifer Cody Epstein (1)
- IN: The Gods of Heavenly Punishment (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.
FROM: Letter to Harriet Monroe, (1914), Letter, UK
- Geoff Dyer (2)
- IN: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: ‘Out of sheer rage I’ve begun my book on Thomas Hardy. It will be about anything but Thomas Hardy I am afraid – queer stuff – but not bad.’
FROM: NULL, (1914), NULL, UK
- IN: Paris Trance (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The usual plan is to take two couples and develop their relationship. Most of George Eliot’s are on that plan. Anyhow, I don’t want a plot, I should be bored with it. I shall try two couples for a start.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- Margaret Drabble (2)
- IN: The Dark Flood Rises (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Piecemeal the body dies, and the timid soul
has her footing washed away, as the dark flood rises.
FROM: The Ship of Death, (1932), Poem, UK
- IN: The Flood Rises (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Piecemeal the body dies, and the timid soul
has her footing washed away, as the dark flood rises.
FROM: "The Ship of Death", (1933), Poem, UK
- Stephen King (1)
- IN: Lisey's Story (2006) Fiction, Horror, Gothic, American
EPIGRAPH: If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
FROM: The Rainbow, (1915), Novel, UK
- Brian Evenson (1)
- IN: Fugue State (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The scroll of the night sky seemed to roll back, showing a huge blood-dusky presence looming enormous, stooping, looking down, awaiting its moment.
FROM: The Border Line, (1924), Short Story, UK
- Philip K. Dick (1)
- IN: Galactic Pot Healer (1969) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid,
But even so, honoured still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.
FROM: Snake, (1923), Poem, UK
- Stephen Gallagher (1)
- IN: The Bedlam Detective (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us,
we must accept them and be at peace with them.
FROM: The Reality of Peace 1917, (1917), NULL, NULL
- Christopher J. Yates (1)
- IN: Black Chalk (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
FROM: Studies in Classic American Literature, (1923), Book, UK
- R. A. Sasaki (1)
- IN: The Loom (1991) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And out of a pattern of lies, art weaves the truth.
FROM: Studies in Classic American Literature, (1923), Book, UK
- Jacquelyn Mitchard (1)
- IN: Cage of Stars (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How many stars in your bowl?
How many shadows in your soul?
FROM: The Stars Stand Still (In A Boat), (1916), Poem, UK
- Shelly King (1)
- IN: The Moment of Everything (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: For Connie had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.
FROM: Lady Chatterley's Lover, (1928), Novel, UK
- Patrick Gale (1)
- IN: The Facts of Life (1995) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self
And the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
long, difficult repentance, realisation of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself
from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
FROM: Healing, (None), Poem, UK
- Robert Cohen (1)
- IN: Amateur Barbarians (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Let a man go to the bottom of what he is, and believe in that.
FROM: Letter to E. M. Forster, (1916), Letter, UK
- Salman Rushdie (1)
- IN: The Golden House (2017) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road to the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
FROM: Lady Chatterly's Lover, (1928), Novel, UK
- Christopher Hope (1)
- IN: My Mother's Lovers (2006) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Strange he is, my son, whom I have awaited like a lover.
Strange to me like a captive in a foreign country ...
FROM: Monologue of a Mother, (1916), Poem, UK
- T. C. Boyle (1)
- IN: Whales Weep (1985) Fiction, Short Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all...
FROM: "Whales Weep Not", (1933), Poem, UK
- Sue Townsend (1)
- IN: The Adrian Mole Diaries (1982) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him... yet he chatted away with his mother. He would never have confessed to her how he suffered over these things and she only partly guessed.
FROM: Sons and Lovers, (1913), Novel, UK
- Joyce Carol Oates (1)
- IN: Beasts (2002) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I love you, rotten,
Delicious rottenness.
... wonderful are the hellish experiences,
Orphic, delicate
Dionysos of the Underworld.
FROM: "Medlars and Sorb-Apples" from Birds, Beasts and Flowers, (None), Book, UK