Author: Enid Shomer

Cites

• Florence Nightingale (1)
  • IN: The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Is discontent a privilege?... Woman has nothing but her affections, -- and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
    FROM: Cassandra, (1852), Book, UK
• Gustave Flaubert (2)
  • IN: The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The future is the worst thing about the present. The question "What are you going to do?," when it is cast in your face, is like an abyss in front of you that keeps moving ahead with each step you take.
    FROM: Letter to Ernest Chevalier, (1839), Letter, France
  • IN: Tourist Season (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... what is it good for, I ask in all truth, a book that gives no recipe for mutton or for getting rid of fleas, ... but which talks about a madman, by which I mean the world, that great idiot that has been rotating for so many centuries in space without moving forward a single step, and that howls and slobbers and tears itself apart.
    FROM: Memoirs of a Madman, (1838), Book, France
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To speak the names of the dead is to make them live again.
    FROM: The Book of the Dead, (-50), Book, Egypt
• The Talmud (1)
  • IN: Tourist Season (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Better is one day in this life than a whole lifetime in the world to come.
    FROM: The Talmud, (500), The Talmud, NULL