Author: Louisa Hall
Cites
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
- IN: Speak (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Consequently we have only to discover these laws of nature, and man will no longer have to answer for his actions and life will become exceedingly easy for him. All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of encyclopaedic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world.
FROM: Notes from Underground, (1864), Book, Russia
- Brothers Grimm (1)
- IN: Speak (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Slave in the magic mirror, come from the farthest space, through wind and darkness I summon thee. Speak!
FROM: Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, (1937), Short story, Germany
- Jane Austen (1)
- IN: The Carriage House (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Yes, he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to give her rest.
FROM: Persuasion, (1817), Novel, UK