Author: Jeffery Deaver

Cites

• Paul Simon (1)
  • IN: The Sleeping Doll (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same. After changes we are more or less the same
    FROM: The Boxer, SEPTEMBER 13, 1999, (1999), NULL, US
• William Faulkner (1)
  • IN: Cold Moon (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
    FROM: The Sound and the Fury, (1929), Novel, US
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Cold Moon (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You can't see me, but I'm always present. Run as fast as you can, but you'll never escape me. Fight me with all your strength, but you'll never defeat me. I kill when I wish, but can never be brought to justice. Who am I? Old Man Time.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Blue Nowhere (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is possible… to commit nearly any crime by computer. You could even kill a person using a computer.
    FROM: a Los Angeles Police Department officer, (None), NULL, US
• Marguerite Duras (1)
  • IN: Hard News (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.
    FROM: Outside, (1981), Book, France
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: Mistress of Justice (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. "No, no," said the Queen. "Sentence first – verdict afterwards."
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• T. H. White (1)
  • IN: The Coffin Dancer (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist’s art. One is matching one’s mind against another mind with deadly reason and interest.
    FROM: The Goshawk, (1951), Book, UK
• Rupert Cadell (1)
  • IN: Shallow Graves (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A man should keep his word.
    FROM: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, (1948), Film, US
• Jean-Luc Godard (1)
  • IN: Bloody River Blues (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
    FROM: Trade-press spread announcing his forthcoming film, (1964), Article, France/Switzerland
• Humphrey Bogart (1)
  • IN: Hell's Kitchen (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I’m a professional. I’ve survived in a pretty rough business.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Richard Bernstein (1)
  • IN: Roadside Crosses (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What the Internet and its cult of anonymity do is to provide a blanket sort of immunity for anybody who wants to say anything about anybody else, and it would be difficult in this sense to think of a more morally deformed exploitation of the concept of free speech.
    FROM: New York Times, (2008), Article, US
• Hippocrates (1)
  • IN: The Empty Chair (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From the brain and the brain alone, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrow, pain, grief, and tears… The brain is also the seat of madness and delirium, of the fears and terrors which assail by night or day…
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Danielle and Tong Shu Pecorini (1)
  • IN: The Stone Monkey (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The word Wei-Chi consists of two Chinese words – Wei, which means to "encircle," and Chi, which means "piece." As the game represents a struggle for life, it may be called the "war game."
    FROM: The Game of Wei-Chi, (1929), Book, NULL
• O'Harrow Jr, Robert (1)
  • IN: The Broken Window (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Most privacy violations are not going to be caused by the exposure of huge personal secrets but by the publication of many little facts… As with killer bees, one is an annoyance but a swarm can be deadly.
    FROM: No Place to Hide, (2005), Novel, US
• W. Daniel Hillis (1)
  • IN: The Blue Nowhere (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I say that the brain is a machine, it is meant not as an insult to the mind but as an acknowledgment of the potential of a machine. I do not believe that a human mind is less than what we imagine it to be, but rather that a machine can be much, much more.
    FROM: The Pattern on the Stone, (1998), Book, US
• John Muir (1)
  • IN: The Bodies Left Behind (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
    FROM: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, (1938), Book, Scotland/US
• Marvin Kaye (1)
  • IN: The Vanished Man (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye."
    FROM: The Creative Magician's Handbook, (1973), Book, US
• Peter and Wisema, Richard Lament (1)
  • IN: The Vanished Man (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A conjuring trick is generally regarded by magicians as consisting of an effect and a method. The effect is what the spectator sees… The method is the secret behind the effect and allows the effect to take place.
    FROM: Magic in Theory, (1999), Book, UK
• William Butler Yeats (1)
  • IN: Manhattan is my Boat (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The land of faery: where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
    FROM: The Land of Heart's Desire, (1894), Play, Ireland
• Christopher Isherwood (1)
  • IN: Garden of Beasts (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [Berlin] was full of whispers. They told of illegal midnight arrests, of prisoners tortured in the S.A. barracks… They were drowned by the loud angry voices of the Government, contradicting through its thousand mouths.
    FROM: Berlin Stories, (1945), Book, England/US
• Osborn and Osborn (1)
  • IN: The Devil's Teardrop (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A thorough analysis of an anonymous letter may greatly reduce the number of possible writers and may at once dismiss certain suspected writers. The use of a semicolon or the correct use of an apostrophe may eliminate a whole group of writers.
    FROM: Questioned Document Problems, (1944), Book, US
• Thomas Alva Edison (2)
  • IN: Burning Wire (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• John Jay Chapman (1)
  • IN: The Bone Collector (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
    FROM: Emerson, and Other Essays, (1898), Book, US
• Hugh Dalton (1)
  • IN: Carte Blanche (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is needed is a new organisation to co-ordinate, inspire, control, and assist the nationals of the oppressed countries… We need absolute secrecy, a certain fanatical enthusiasm, willingness to work with people of different nationalities and complete political reliability. The organisation should, in my view, be entirely independent of the War Office machiner
    FROM: Minister of Economic Warfare, describing the formation of Britain’s Special Operations Executive espionage and sabotage group at the outbreak of the Second World War., (None), NULL, NULL
• Paul L. Kirk (1)
  • IN: A Textbook Case (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Physical evidence cannot be wrong, it cannot perjure itself, it cannot be wholly absent. Only human failure to find it, study and understand it, can diminish its value.
    FROM: Crime Investigation: Physical Evidence and the Police Laboratory, (1953), NULL, US
• Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1)
  • IN: The Kill Room (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
    FROM: The Friends of Voltaire, 1906, (1906), Book, UK
• H. G. Wells (1)
  • IN: The Skin Collector (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals — humanised animals — triumphs of vivisection.
    FROM: The Island of Doctor Moreau, (1896), Novel, UK
• Frank Herbert (1)
  • IN: Solitude Creek (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fear is the mind-killer.
    FROM: Dune, (1965), Novel, US
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: An Acceptable Sacrifice (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    FROM: Dreamtigers, (1960), Book, Argentina
• Cicero (1)
  • IN: The Steel Kiss (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Søren Kierkegaard (1)
  • IN: The October List (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
    FROM: The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844, (1844), Book, NULL