Author: Elizabeth Bear

Cites

• A. E. Housman (1)
  • IN: Scardown (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Soldier, I wish you well.
    FROM: Soldier, I Wish You Well, (1896), Poem, UK
• Gautama Buddha (1)
  • IN: Worldwired (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One cannot walk the Path until one becomes the Path
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, India
• Clarissa Pinkola Estes (1)
  • IN: Chill (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But ... that is not what great ships are built for.
    FROM: Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.,"Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times", (2003), Letter, US
• William Shakespeare (4)
  • IN: Chill (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?
    FROM: Henry IV, Part I, Act 3, Scene 1, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Grail (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: when the world ended In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
    FROM: Hamlet, Act II scene i, (1603), Play, UK
  • IN: Hell and Earth (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Touchstone:If thou beest not damn’d for this, the devil himself will have no shepherds; I cannot see else how thou shouldst scape.
    FROM: As You Like It,Act III, scene ii, (1623), Play, UK
• Lord Alfred Tennyson (1)
  • IN: Grail (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God make thee good as thou art beautiful.
    FROM: The Holy Grail, (1869), Poem, UK
• Ursula K. Leguin (1)
  • IN: Grail (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As for ideology, the Hell with it. All of it.
    FROM: NULL, (2001), Interview, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Grail (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
    FROM: Bible (King James Version), Genesis 28: 15–17, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Quentin Crisp (1)
  • IN: Dust (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    FROM: The Naked Civil Servant, (1968), Book, UK
• Christopher Marlowe (1)
  • IN: Ink and Steel (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And since we all have suck’d one wholesome air, And with the same proportion of Elements Resolve, I hope we are resembled, Vowing our loves to equal death and life.
    FROM: Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1, Act II, scene vi, (1590), Play, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Carnival (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: car•ni•val (kдr'n-vl) n. [Italian carnevale, from Old Italian carnelevare: carne, meat (from Latin caro, carn-) + levare, to remove (from Latin levare, to raise).] lit. “farewell to the flesh”
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Maurice Maeterlinck (1)
  • IN: This Chance Planet (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
    FROM: My Dog, (1906), Novel, Belgium