Author: G. K. Chesterton

Cited by

• Neil Gaiman (2)
  • IN: Neverwhere (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "I have never been to St John's Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of fir trees, afraid to come upon a blood red cup and the beating of the wings of the EAgle."
    FROM: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, (1904), Novel, UK
  • IN: Coraline (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
    FROM: The Red Angel, (1909), Essay, UK
• de Kretser, Michelle (1)
  • IN: The Hamilton Case (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: I always made it my business, at least, to know the part thoroughly.
    FROM: The Secret of Father Brown, (1927), Novel, UK
• E. K. Johnston (1)
  • IN: The Story of Owen (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• J. Barton Mitchell (1)
  • IN: Midnight City (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Ace Atkins (1)
  • IN: The Ranger (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• W. C. Bauers (1)
  • IN: Indomitable (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Patti Callahan Henry (1)
  • IN: And then I found you (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• John Crowley (1)
  • IN: Little, Big (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men are men, but Man is a woman.
    FROM: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, (1904), Novel, UK
• Garth Risk Hallberg (1)
  • IN: City on Fire (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself -- there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold." "All the same," replied Syme patiently, "just at present you only see the tree by light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree."
    FROM: The Man Who Was Thursday, (1908), Novel, UK
• Anne Perry (1)
  • IN: Cain His Brother (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We have read each other as Cain his brother
    FROM: A Song of Defeat, (1910), Poem, UK
• Chris Morgan Jones (1)
  • IN: The Jackal's Share (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Maurice Broaddus (1)
  • IN: King's War (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
    FROM: Tremendous Trifles (1909), XVII: "The Red Angel", (1909), NULL, UK
• Justin Taylor (1)
  • IN: The Gospel of Anarchy (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to be wholly God, must have been a rebel as well as a king.
    FROM: Orthodoxy, (1908), Book, UK
• Dean Koontz (3)
  • IN: Lost Souls (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
    FROM: Illustrated London News, (1909), Article, UK
  • IN: The Dead Town (2011) Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men can always be blind to a thing so long as it is big enough. It is so difficult to see the world in which we live.
    FROM: The Superstition of Divorce, (1920), Book, UK
  • IN: Breathless (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
    FROM: NULL, (1909), Article, UK
• Mark Mills (1)
  • IN: The Long Shadow (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain.
    FROM: The Aristocrat", (1915), Poem, UK
• Susan Meissner (1)
  • IN: Widows & Orphans (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting -- it has been found difficult and left untried.
    FROM: What's Wrong with the World, (1910), Novel, UK
• Victor Lodato (1)
  • IN: Mathilda Savitch (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer money.
    FROM: On Household Gods and Goblins, (1922), Essay, UK
• Patry Francis (2)
  • IN: The Orphans of Race Point (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound, the less it is blind.
    FROM: Orthodoxy, (1908), Book, UK
  • IN: The Orphan of Race Point (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound, the less it is blind.
    FROM: Orthodoxy, (1908), Book, UK
• James Runchie (1)
  • IN: The Grantchester Mysteries: Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sin (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK