Author: Emma Donoghue
Cites
- Simonides (3)
- IN: Room (2010) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: My child
Such trouble I have.
And you sleep, your heart is placid;
you dream in the joyless wood;
in the night nailed in bronze,
in the blue dark you lie still and shine.
FROM: Danae, (None), Poem, Greece
- Virgil (1)
- IN: Astray (2012) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Tell us underneath what skies,
Upon what coasts of earth we have been cast;
We wander ignorant of men and places,
And driven by the wind and the vast waves.
FROM: The Aeneid, (-19), NULL, Greece
- NULL (1)
- IN: The Wonder (None) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: May there be no frost on your potatoes, nor worms in your cabbage
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
- Elizabeth Cook (2)
- IN: These are the ashes of fiery (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There are sealed pages in my heart,
Traced with illumined hand,
That none can see, and if they did,
Oh! who would understand?
But thou, by some strange sympathy,
Hast thrown a searching look,
And read at sight the hardest scroll
Indorsed within the book.
FROM: Stanzas, Addressed to Charlotte Cushman, (1862), Poem, US
- IN: The Sealed Letter (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There are sealed pages in my heart,
Traced with illumined hand,
That none can see, and if they did,
Oh! who would understand?
But thou, by some strange sympathy,
Hast thrown a searching look,
And read at sight the hardest scroll
Indorsed within the book.
FROM: "Stanzas, Addressed to Charlotte Cushman", (1851), Poem, US
- Emily Faithfull (1)
- IN: The Sealed Letter (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I Prima Facie
(Latin, "at first sight" or "on the face of it":
evidence presumed to be true unless rebutted)
Every woman should be free
to support herself by the use of
whatever faculties God has given her.
FROM: Letter to the English Woman's Journal
(September 1862), (1862), Letter, UK
- nurse (1)
- IN: The Wonder (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: to suckle an infant
to bring up a child
to take care of the sick
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL