Author: Lia Habel

Cites

• Richard Dawkins (2)
  • IN: Beloved (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones [...] We privileged few who won the lottery of birth against all odds - how dare we whine at that inevitable return to our prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
    FROM: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, (1998), Book, UK
  • IN: Deadly Beloved (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones [...] We privileged few who won the lottery of birth against all odds - how dare we whine at that inevitable return to our prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Oliver Goldsmith (2)
  • IN: Beloved (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy [...] is a much greater character than ladies described in romances, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver, or their eyes.
    FROM: The Vicar of Wakefield, (1766), Novel, Ireland
  • IN: Deadly Beloved (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy [...] is a much greater character than ladies described in romances, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver, or their eyes.
    FROM: The Vicar of Wakefield, (1766), Novel, Ireland