Author: Kate Atkinson

Cites

• Bible (2)
  • IN: Case Histories (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free
    FROM: John 3:32, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Case Histories: A Jackson Brodie Novel (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
    FROM: John 8:32, (100), Bible, NULL
• Leigh Hunt (2)
  • IN: Human Croquet (1997) Fiction, Crime, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: This green and laughing world he sees Water and plains, and waving trees, The skim of birds and the blue-doming skies
    FROM: Ode for the Spring of 1814, (1814), Poem, UK
• Ovid (1)
  • IN: Not the End of the World (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora, di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen
    FROM: Metamorphoses Book 1, 1-4, (8), Poem, Italy
• Freidank Bescheidenheit (1)
  • IN: Started Early, Took My Dog (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For want of a nail the shoe was lost. / For want of a shoe the horse was lost. / For want of a horse the rider was lost. / For want of a rider the battle was lost. / For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. / And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
    FROM: Proverb (Origin: Middle High German), (1230), Proverb, NULL
• Peter Sutcliffe (2)
  • IN: Started Early, Took My Dog (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I was just cleaning up the place a bit.
    FROM: NULL, (1981), Conversation, UK
  • IN: Started Early, Took my Dog (2010) Fiction, Crime, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: I was just cleaning up the place a bit.
    FROM: NULL, (1981), Conversation, UK
• Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: Life After Life (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What is some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more" ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a trememdous moment when you would have answered him: "you are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."
    FROM: The Gay Science, (1882), Book, Germany
• Plato (1)
  • IN: Life After Life (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Everything changes and nothing remains still.
    FROM: Cratylus, (-400), Book, Greece
• Edward Beresford Todd (1)
  • IN: Life After Life (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?
    FROM: NULL, (2013), Fictional, NULL
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)
  • IN: A God in Ruins (2015) Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams
    FROM: Nature, (1836), Book, US
• Kate Atkinson (1)
  • IN: A God in Ruins (2015) Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself.
    FROM: Beresford, Todd, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Robert Baden-Powell (1)
  • IN: A God in Ruins (2015) Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: On one occasion St George came to a city named Salem, near which lived a dragon who had to be fed daily with one of the citizens, drawn by lot. The day St George came there, the lot had fallen upon the King's daughter, Cleolinda. St George resolved that she should not die, and so he went out and attacked the dragon, who lived in a swamp close by and killed him. When he was faced by a difficulty or danger, however great it appeared - even the shape of a dragon - he did not avoid it or fear it, but went at it with all the power he could put into himself and his horse. Although inadequately armed for such an encounter, having merely a spear, he charged in, did his best and finally succeeded in overcoming a difficulty which nobody had dared to tackle. This is exactly the way in which a scout should face a difficulty or danger, no matter how great or terrifying it may appear to him or how ill-equipped he may be for the struggle.
    FROM: Scouting for Boys, (1908), NULL, UK
• Cicero (1)
  • IN: One Good Turn (2006) Fiction, Thriller, Crime, British
    EPIGRAPH: What is dishonourably got is dishonourably squandered.
    FROM: Philippic II 27, (-44), Book, Italy
• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: When Will There Be Good News? (2008) Fiction, Crime, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: We never know we go,-when we are going We jest and shut the door; Fate following behind us bolts it, And we accost no more.
    FROM: #1523, (1896), Poem, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Started Early, Took my Dog (2010) Fiction, Crime, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
    FROM: Traditional, (None), Song, NULL
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: Emotionally Weird (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone. 'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.' 'Oh!' said Alice. She was much too puzzled to make any other remark. 'Ah, you should see 'em come round me of a Saturday night,' Humpty Dumpty went on, wagging his head gravely from side to side: 'For to get their wages, you know.
    FROM: Through the Looking-Glass, (1871), Novel, UK

Cited by

• Kelly Fiore (1)
  • IN: Thicker than Water (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The beginning is the word and the end is silence. An in between are all the stories.
    FROM: Human Croquet, (1997), Novel, UK
• Kate Atkinson (1)
  • IN: A God in Ruins (2015) Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself.
    FROM: Beresford, Todd, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Alex Berenson (1)
  • IN: The Prisoner (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Eevryone had done well out of the war except for those who had fought in it.
    FROM: A God in Ruins, (2015), Novel, UK
• Jeremy Tiang (1)
  • IN: It Never Rains on National Day (2015) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Thresholds are safe, but unfortunately you can't stay on them for ever.
    FROM: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, (1995), Novel, UK
• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: Dead Souls (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Once I caught a train to Cardenden by mistake... When we reached Cardenden we got off and waited for the next train back to Edinburgh. I was very tired and if Cardenden had looked more promising, I think I would have simply stayed there. And if you've ever been to Cardenden you'll know how bad things must have been.
    FROM: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, (1995), Novel, UK