Author: Diane Duane

Cites

• L. Frank Baum (2)
  • IN: Games Wizards Play (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I . . . am about to embark upon a hazardous and technically unexplainable journey . . . to confer, converse, and other-wise hobnob with my brother wizards.
    FROM: The Wizard of Oz, (1900), Novel, NULL
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Games Wizards Play (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When moon and sun stand each in place / And your opponent takes the field, / Look past him to the one you'll face / When all hid truths stand new-revealed. / When that time comes, your only shield / Will be the outward gaze toward space; / The cold will show what sword to wield / Against the fire's and death's embrace. / Still, though your oldest foe should yield, / Beware the last fall of the dice: / Though now an ancient sorrow's healed, / Beware who pays the final price — / And do not miss, 'twixt fire and ice, / Your chance to make the sun rise twice.
    FROM: I Ching trigram 30, Fire over Fire: "Double Brightness", (-925), NULL, China
  • IN: A Wizard of Mars (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The one departed | is the one who returns From the straigtened circle | and the shortened night, When the blue star rises | and the water burns: Then the word long-lost | comes again to light To be spoke by the watcher | who silent yearns For the lost one found. Yet to wreak aright, She must slay her rival | and the First World spurn Lest the one departed | no more return.
    FROM: The Red Rede, 1-8, (2010), Fictional, NULL
• Oscar Wilde (2)
  • IN: Games Wizards Play (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am not young enough to know everything.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Marcus Annaeus (1)
  • IN: A Wizard of Mars (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...Mars, why art thou bent On kindling thus the Scorpion, his tail Portending evil and his claws aflame?... Why planets leave their paths and through the void Thus journey on obscure? 'Tis war that comes, Fierce rabid war: the sword shall bear the rule...
    FROM: Pharsalia, Lucanus Book 1, (65), Book, Italy
• Baltasar Gracián (1)
  • IN: A Wizard of Mars (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is always late, always last to arrive, limping along with Time.
    FROM: The Art of Worldly Wisdom, (1647), Book, Spain