Author: Jennifer Weiner

Cites

• Nora Ephron (2)
  • IN: All Fall Down (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Vera said: “Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?” So I told her why: Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn’t hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.
    FROM: Heartburn, (1983), Novel, US
• Philip Larkin (1)
  • IN: Good in Bed (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to win them back. Instead, bereft Of anyone to please, it withers so, Having no heart to put aside the theft And turn again to what it started as, A joyous shot at how things ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it was: Look at the pictures and the cutlery. The music in the piano stool. That vase.
    FROM: Home is so Sad, (1964), Poem, UK
• Liz Phair (1)
  • IN: Good in Bed (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.
    FROM: Love is Nothing, (1998), Song, US
• Bob Dylan (1)
  • IN: Who Do You Love (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I married Isis on the fifth day of May But I could not hold on to her very long So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.
    FROM: Isis, (1976), Song, US
• Margery Williams (1)
  • IN: Little Earthquakes (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?” “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
    FROM: The Velveteen Rabbit, (1922), Novel, US/England
• Hamilton (1)
  • IN: Hungry Heart (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “I wrote my way out.”
    FROM: Hurricane, (2015), Song, US
• The Talmud (1)
  • IN: Certain Girls (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some say a parent should teach a child to swim.
    FROM: The Talmud, (500), The Talmud, NULL
• The Smiths (1)
  • IN: The Next Best Thing (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Please, please, please, let me, let me, let me, let me get what I want this time.”
    FROM: "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want", (1984), Song, UK
• Betty Friedan (1)
  • IN: Goodnight Nobody (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—‘Is this all?’
    FROM: The Feminine Mystique, (1963), Book, US
• Dr. Seuss (1)
  • IN: Goodnight Nobody (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Sighed Mayzie, a lazy bird hatching an egg: ‘I’m tired and I’m bored And I’ve kinks in my leg From sitting, just sitting here day after day. It’s work! How I hate it! I’d much rather play! I’d take a vacation, fly off for a rest, if I could find someone to stay on my nest! ”
    FROM: Horton Hatches the Egg, (1940), Short story, US
• Laurie Anderson (1)
  • IN: Goodnight Nobody (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Well I had a dream and in it I went to a little town And all the girls in town were named Betty.”
    FROM: Smoke Rings, (1986), Song, US
• Charles Dickens (1)
  • IN: Then Came You (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “So,” said Estella, “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
    FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
• Bruce Springsteen (1)
  • IN: Best Friends Forever (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “I can’t say that I’m sorry for the things that we done At least for a little while sir me and her we had us some fun”
    FROM: Nebraska, (1982), Song, US
• Roald Dahl (1)
  • IN: The Littlest Bigfoot (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world to themselves.
    FROM: The BFG, (1982), Novel, UK