Author: Donna Freitas

Cites

• Rene Descartes (1)
  • IN: Unplugged (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I will suppose, then... that some malignant demon, who is at once exceedingly potent and deceitful, has employed all his artifice to deceive me; I will suppose that the sky, the air, the earth, colors, figures, sounds, and all external things, are nothing better than the illusions of dreams, by means of which this being has laid snares for my credulity; I will consider myself as without hands, eyes, flesh, blood, or any of the senses, and as falsely believing that I am possessed of these... just as the captive, who, perchance, was enjoying in his dreams an imaginary liberty, when he begins to suspect that it is but a vision, dreads awakening, and conspires with the agreeable illusions that the deception may be prolonged.
    FROM: Of the Things of Which We May Doubt, Meditations on First Philosophy, (1641), NULL, France
• Michelle Kwan (1)
  • IN: Gold Medal Winter (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.
    FROM: NULL, (1998), NULL, US
• René Descartes (1)
  • IN: The Body Market (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nature teaches me that my own body is surrounded by many other bodies, some of which I have to seek after, and others to shun. And indeed, as I perceive different sorts of colors, sounds, odors, tastes, heat, hardness, etc., I safely conclude that... some are agreeable, and others disagreeable, [and] there can be no doubt that my body, or rather my entire self, in as far as I am composed of body and mind, may be variously affected, both beneficially and hurtfully, by surrounding bodies.
    FROM: "Of the Existence of Material Things and of the Real Distinction Between the Mind and the Body of Man", Meditations on First Philosophy, (1641), Book, France