Author: Julia Keller

Cites

• Isak Dinesen (1)
  • IN: Sorrow Road (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The thin grey line of a road, winding across the plain and up and down hills, was the fixed materialization of human longing, and of the human notion that it is better to be in one place than another.
    FROM: Sorrow Acre, (1942), Short Story, Denmark
• Irene McKinney (1)
  • IN: A Killing in the Hills (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The roads get lost in the clotted hills, in the Blue Spruce maze, the red cough, the Allegheny marl, the sulphur ooze.
    FROM: Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'clock Mine Report, (None), Poem, US
• Umberto Eco (1)
  • IN: Bitter River (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
    FROM: The Name of the Rose, (1980), Novel, Italy
• Graham Greene (1)
  • IN: Last Ragged Breath (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
    FROM: The Power and the Glory, (1940), Novel, UK
• Salman Rushdie (1)
  • IN: Last Ragged Breath (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the end, stories are what's left of us, we are no more than the few tales that persist.
    FROM: The Moor's Last Sigh, (1995), Novel, UK
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)
  • IN: Summer of the Dead (2014) Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: For, what other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
    FROM: The House of the Seven Gables, (None), Novel, US