Author: Karen Maitland

Cites

• Alfred Tennyson (2)
  • IN: The Vanishing Witch (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws.
    FROM: The Idylls of the King, (1850), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Vanishing With (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The children born of thee are sword and fire, Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws.
    FROM: Idylls of the King, (1859), Poem, UK
• Geoffrey Chaucer (2)
  • IN: The Vanishing Witch (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So hideous was the noise, a benedicite! Certes he, Jack Straw and all his meinie, Ne made never shouts so shrill When that they would any Fleming kill.
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales, (1400), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Vanishing With (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So hideous was the noise, a benedicite! Certes he, Jack Straw and all his meinie, Ne made never shouts so shrill When that they would any Fleming kill.
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales, (1400), Poem, UK
• Joseph Conrad (2)
  • IN: The Vanishing Witch (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
    FROM: Under Western Eyes, (1911), Novel, England/Poland
  • IN: The Vanishing With (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
    FROM: Under Western Eyes, (1911), Novel, England/Poland
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Raven's Head (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One for sorrow Two for mirth Three for a funeral Four for a birth Five for heaven Six for hell The seventh takes your soul for the Devil to sell.
    FROM: traditional rhyme for counting magpies, known as witch birds, (None), Rhyme, NULL
• Avicenna (1)
  • IN: The Raven's Head (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Take some 'stone'. Divide it into four parts -- air, fire, earth and water. I am unable to discover that it can be done in any way other than the following. A human being lives, dies, and depends upon blood. Likewise the stone. Consequently they say that this stone is a living stone, and therefore because there is no higher soul than a human being, they take the stone of a human.
    FROM: NULL, (950), NULL, Iran
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Falcons of Fire and Ice (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Time and chance happen to all men. For man knows not his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, so are the sons of man snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
    FROM: Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11-12, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Wilfred Owen (1)
  • IN: The Falcons of Fire and Ice (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
    FROM: Strange Meeting, (1919), Poem, UK
• Titus Lucretius Carus (1)
  • IN: The Falcons of Fire and Ice (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (So potent a persuasion to evil was religion.)
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, (-50), NULL, Italy
• Ben Jonson (1)
  • IN: The Owl Killers (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tell proud Jove, Between his power and thine there is no odds. ’Twas only fear first in the world made gods.
    FROM: Sejanus, (1603), Play, UK
• Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beguine from 1230-1270 (1)
  • IN: The Owl Killers (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We do not know how strong we are until we are attacked by the evil of this world.
    FROM: Beguine, (None), Religious Text, Germany
• Alfred Adler (1)
  • IN: Company of Liars (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.
    FROM: Problems of Neurosis, (1930), Book, Austria
• Friedrich Willhelm Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: Company of Liars (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Wir haben die Luge notig... um zu leben. We need lies... in order to live.
    FROM: The Will to Power, (1901), Book, Germany
• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: The Raven's Eye (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking, Fancy upon fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -- What this girm, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore."
    FROM: The Raven, (1845), Poem, US