Author: Kate Mosse

Cites

• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Taxidermist's Daughter (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I do remember an apothecary and hereabouts he dwells... and in his needy shop a tortoise is hung, an alligator stuff'd and other skins of ill-shaped fishes.
    FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
• James Montgomery (1)
  • IN: The Taxidermist's Daughter (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tis now, replied the village belle, St Mark's mysterious eve, And all that old traditions tell I trembingly believe; How, when the midnight signal tolls, Along the churchyard green, A mournful train of sentenced souls In winding-sheets are seen. The ghosts of all whom death shall doom Within the coming year, In pale procession walk the gloom, Amid the silence drear.
    FROM: The Vigil of St Mark, (1813), Poem, UK
• Willa Cather (1)
  • IN: The Taxidermist's Daughter (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
    FROM: NULL, (1912), Conversation, US
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Winter Ghosts (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lo vielh Ivern ambe sa samba ranca Ara es tornat dins los nostres camins Le neu retrais una flassada blanca E'l Cerc bronzis dins las brancas dels pins. (Pitiful old Winter has returned, Limping up and down our roads, Spreading his white blanket of snow While the Cers wind cries in the branches of the pine trees.)
    FROM: Occitan song, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: Labyrinth (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tên përdu, jhamâi sē rëcôbro Time lost can never be regained
    FROM: Medieval Occitan proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: The Winter Ghosts (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Known unto God
    FROM: Phrase used on the gravestones of unknown soldiers in CWGC cemeteries, (1917), Saying, UK
• Bible (2)
  • IN: The Burning Chambers (2018) Fiction, Mystery Ficon, British
    EPIGRAPH: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
    FROM: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, King James Version, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Labyrinth (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
    FROM: Gospel According to St John, 8:32, (100), Bible, NULL
• Adrienne Rich (1)
  • IN: Citadel (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We are, I am, you are by cowardise or courage the ones who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.
    FROM: Diving into the Wreck, (1973), Poem, US
• E & J de Goncourt (1)
  • IN: Labyrinth (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: L'histoire est un roman qui a été, le roman est une histoire qui aurait pu étre. History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France