Author: Laura Lippman

Cites

• Bible (2)
  • IN: What the Dead Know (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished; never again will they have any share in all that happens under the sun.
    FROM: Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:5-6, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Every Secret Thing (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
    FROM: Bible, Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, (-165), Bible, NULL
• George C. Bastian (1)
  • IN: Charm City (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 1 ordinary man + 1 ordinary life = 0 1 ordinary man + 1 extraordinary adventure = News 1 ordinary husband + 1 ordinary wife = 0 1 husband + 3 wives = News 1 bank cashier + 1 wife + 7 children = 0 1 bank cashier – $10,000 = News 1 chorus girl + 1 bank president – $100,000 = News 1 man + 1 auto + 1 gun + 1 quart = News 1 ordinary man + 1 ordinary life of 79 years = 0 1 ordinary man + 1 ordinary life of 100 years = News
    FROM: Editing the Day's News," 1922, (1922), NULL, NULL
• Cynthia A. Branigan (1)
  • IN: Charm City (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: By choosing to share your life with a Greyhound, you are participating in an act nearly as old as civilization itself. These are the same dogs that slept alongside the pharaohs, hunted with the noblemen of the Middle Ages, and have inspired artists and poets for thousands of years. Without a doubt they are worthy of us. The question is, Are we worthy of them?
    FROM: Adopting the Racing Greyhound, (1992), Book, NULL
• Thomas C. Frazier (1)
  • IN: Charm City (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Drive-bys are out. Executions are in.
    FROM: Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier in a 1997 interview on local crime statistics, (1997), Speech, US
• W. S. Merwin (1)
  • IN: Butcher's Hill (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When years without number like days of another summer had turned into air there once more was a street that had never forgotten the eyes of its child
    FROM: "Another Place", (1990), Poem, US
• NULL (3)
  • IN: The Sugar House (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Never get caught with a dead girl or a live boy.
    FROM: A political maxim of unknown origin, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: By a Spider's Thread (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Evil inclination is at first as slender as a spider’s thread, and then strong as a rope.
    FROM: Talmudic Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• H. L. Mencken (2)
  • IN: The Sugar House (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A Baltimorean is not merely John Doe, an isolated individual of Homo sapiens, exactly like every other John Doe. He is John Doe of a certain place-of Baltimore, of a definite home in Baltimore. It was not by accident that all the peoples of the Western world, very early in their history, began distinguishing their best men by adding of this or that place to their names.
    FROM: Evening Sun, February 16, 1925, (1925), Article, US
  • IN: Baltimore Blues (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
    FROM: A Book of Burlesques, (1856), NULL, US
• Dr. Thomas Hepburn Buckler (1)
  • IN: Baltimore Blues (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [W]hile I love the dear old City of Baltimore much, and many of her people more, past experience has taught that, in their collective or municipal capacity, they are the most silly, unreflective, procrastinating, impracticable and perverse congregation of bipeds to be found any where under the sun. Wise in their own conceits they are impatient of advice, no matter how thoughtful and well matured, from any one, preferring always their own crude extemporaneous conjectures to the suggestions of sound common sense, which can only be elicited by the patient exercise of judgment, observation and reflection.
    FROM: Dr. Thomas Hepburn Buckler of Baltimore, in a letter home from his self-imposed exile in Paris, published in " Baltimore: Its Interests-Past, Present, and Future," 1873, (1873), NULL, US
• A. E. Housman (1)
  • IN: Baltimore Blues (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again. Then I saw the morning sky: Heighho, the tale was all a lie; The world, it was the old world yet, I was I, my things were wet, And nothing now remained to do But begin the game anew. – A. E. Housman
    FROM: Terence, This is Stupid Stuff, (1896), Poem, UK
• Confucius (1)
  • IN: The Last Place (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ripe plums are falling, Now there are only seven, May a fine lover come for me, Now while there’s still time. Ripe plums are falling, Now there are only three, May a fine lover come for me, While there’s still time. Ripe plums are falling, I lay them in a shuttle basket, May a fine lover come for me. Tell me his name.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, China
• Benjamin Franklin (1)
  • IN: To The Power of Three (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.
    FROM: Poor Richard's Almanack, (1735), Essay, US
• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: To The Power of Three (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My Life had stood-a Loaded gun -In Corners-till a Day The Owner passed-identified- And carried Me away- … Though I than He-may longer live He longer must-than I- For I have but the power to kill, Without-the power to die
    FROM: My Life had stood-a Loaded gun, (1929), Poem, US
• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: In A Strange City (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city, lying alone Far down among the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest.
    FROM: The City in the Sea, (1845), Novel, US
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Another Thing to Fall (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall.
    FROM: Measure for Measure, (1623), Play, UK
• John Greenleaf Whittier (3)
  • IN: Most Dangerous Thing (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.
    FROM: Maud Muller, (1856), Poem, US
  • IN: The Most Dangerous Thing (2009) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.
    FROM: JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, “MAUD MULLER ” Go-Go, (1856), Poem, US
• Homer (1)
  • IN: Life Sentences (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I detest the man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
    FROM: The Iliad, (-8), Poem, Greece
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1)
  • IN: After I'm Gone (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US