Author: Dorothy Parker
Cited by
- Claudia Carroll (1)
- IN: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (2011) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
FROM: Not so Deep as a Well, (1937), Poem, US
- Holly Chamberlin (1)
- IN: Seashell Season (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away
FROM: Advice to the Little Peyton Girl, (1933), Short Story, US
- Alice LaPlante (1)
- IN: Coming of Age at the End of Days (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I give her sadness,
And the gift of pain,
The new-moon madness,
And a love of rain.
FROM: Godmother, (None), Poem, US
- Liz Nugent (1)
- IN: Skin Deep (2018) Fiction, Mystery Ficon, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence, unity. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- Jeff Vandermeer (1)
- IN: Shriek: An Afterword (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If you live a life of desperation, at least lead a loud life of desperation.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
- Thomas E. Kennedy (1)
- IN: Kerrigan in Copenhagen (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I wished on the moon for something I never knew,
A sweeter rose, a softer sky, an April day
That would not dance away.
FROM: I Wished On The Moon, (1935), Song, US