Author: Jan Burke

Cites

• Benjamin Disraeli (1)
  • IN: Remember me, Irene (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Edgar Lee Masters (1)
  • IN: Remember me, Irene (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Over and over, they used to ask me While buying the wine or the beer… How I happened to lead the life, And what was the start of it. Well, I told them a silk dress, And a promise of marriage from a rich man… But that was not really it at all. Suppose a boy steals an apple From the tray at the grocery store, And they all begin to call him a thief, The editor, minister, judge, and all the people- “A thief,” “a thief,” “a thief” wherever he goes. And he can’t get work, and he can’t get bread Without stealing it, why the boy will steal. It’s the way the people regard the theft of the apple That makes the boy what he is.
    FROM: Aner Clute in Spoon River Anthology, (1916), Poem, US
• Katherine Paterson (1)
  • IN: Bones (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The gate was open and the drawbridge down. He galloped across, but when he got to the end of the drawbridge, someone yanked the cable so abruptly that Parzival was nearly thrown, horse and all, into the moat. Parzival turned back to see who had done this to him. There, standing in the open gateway, was the page who had pulled the cable, shaking his fist at Parzival. “May God damn the light that falls upon your path!” the boy cried. “You fool! You wretched fool! Why didn’t you ask the question?” “What do you mean?” Parzival shouted back. “What question?”
    FROM: Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight, (1998), Novel, China
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Hocus (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hocus 1. To play a trick upon; dupe, hoax. 2. To drug (a person), especially for a criminal purpose.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL