Author: Elizabeth George
Cites
- William Shakespeare (8)
- IN: The Edge of Shadow (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), NULL, UK
- IN: The Edge of Light (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), NULL, UK
- IN: The Edge of the Water (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I have done nothing but in care of thee,
Of thee, my dear one, thee my daughter who
Art ignorant of what thou art...
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), NULL, UK
- IN: The Edge of Nowhere (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Be not afeared: the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: The Edge of the Shadows (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- IN: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (1991) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
- IN: Just One Evil Act (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But, being season’d with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil?
FROM: The Merchant of Venice, (1600), Play, UK
- IN: The Edge of the Light (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
- Ferdowsi (1)
- IN: Careless in Red (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If thou art indeed my father,
then thou hast stained thy sword
in the lifeblood of thy son.
And thou didst it of thine own obstinacy.
For I sought to turn thee into love…
FROM: Shahnameh, (1010), Poem, Iran
- Nietszche (1)
- IN: With No One As Witness (2005) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: …and if you gaze for long into the abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you.
FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
- Alexander Pope (1)
- IN: A Suitable Vengeance (1991) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
'Tis sure the hardest science to forget!
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love the offender, yet detest th' offence?
How the dear object from the crime remove,
Or how distinguish penitence from love?
FROM: Eloisa to Abelard, (1717), Poem, UK
- Louis MacNeice (1)
- IN: What Came Before He Shot Her (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: —Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.
FROM: Autumn Journal, (1939), Poem, UK
- NULL (1)
- IN: Deception on His Mind (1997) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman’s will?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on’t;
And if she won’t, she won’t; so there’s an end on’t.
FROM: From the pillar erected on the Mount in the Dane John Field in Canterbury., (None), Inscription, UK
- Bible (2)
- IN: A Great Deliverance (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest and ye are gone away; and what have I more?
FROM: Bible, Judges 19:24, (-165), Bible, NULL
- IN: This Body of Death (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
FROM: Romans, 7:24, (100), Bible, NULL
- Jeanette Winterson (1)
- IN: A Banquet of Consequences (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: ...the past is so hard to shift.
It comes with us like a chaperone,
standing between us and the newness
of the present -- the new chance.
FROM: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, (2011), Book, UK
- Nancy Horan (1)
- IN: A Banquet of Consequences (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.
FROM: Under the Wide and Starry Sky, (2014), Novel, US