Author: Geraldine Brooks

Cites

• Louisa May Alcott (1)
  • IN: March (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Jo said sadly, We haven't got father, and shall not have him for a long time." She didn't say "perhaps never," but each silently added it, thinking of father far away, where the fighting was.
    FROM: Little Women, (1869), NULL, US
• Heinrich Heine (2)
  • IN: People of the Book (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There, where one burns books … one, in the end, burns men.
    FROM: Almansor: A Tragedy, (1823), Play, Germany
• Bible (2)
  • IN: The Secret Chord (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the history of nathan the prophet?
    FROM: Bible, 2 Chronicles 9:29, (-165), Bible, NULL
• John Dryden (2)
  • IN: Year of Wonders (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O let it be enought what thou hast done, When spotted deaths ran arm'd through every street, With posion'd darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy could outfly, or valiant meet. The living few, and frequent funerals then, Proclaim'd thy wrath on this forsaken place: And now those few who are return'd agen Thy searching judgments to their dwellings trace.
    FROM: Annus Mirabilis, The Year of Wonders, (1666), Poem, UK
  • IN: A Year of Wonders (2001) Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O let it be enough what thou hast done, When spotted deaths ran arm’d through every street, With poison’d darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy could outfly, or valiant meet. The living few, and frequent funerals then, Proclaim’d thy wrath on this forsaken place: And now those few who are return’d agen Thy searching judgments to their dwellings trace.
    FROM: Annus Mirabilis, The Year of Wonders, (1666), Poem, UK