Author: Louise Doughty

Cites

• Steve Jones (2)
  • IN: Apple Yard Tree (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Like the eye, the ear and the elbow, the genome shows no element of design, but is instead filled with compromise, contingency and decay
    FROM: Introduction to Britannica Guide to Genetics, (2009), Book, UK
  • IN: Apple Tree Yard (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Like the eye, the ear and the elbow, the genome shows no element of design, but is instead filled with compromise, contingency and decay.
    FROM: The Britannica Guide to Genetics, (2009), Book, UK
• Janet Malcolm (2)
  • IN: Apple Yard Tree (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We go through life mishearing and mis-seeing and misunderstanding so that the stories we tell ourselves will add up
    FROM: The New Yorker: “Iphigenia in Forest Hill” by Janet Malcolm, May 3rd, 2010, p. 38, (2010), Article, US
  • IN: Apple Tree Yard (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We go through life mishearing and mis-seeing and misunderstanding so that the stories we tell ourselves will add up.
    FROM: *Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial, (2011), Book, US
• Epictetus (1)
  • IN: Whatever You Love (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You should remind yourself that when you love is mortal, that when you love is not your own. It is granted to you for the present while, and not irrevocably, nor for ever, but like a fig or a bunch of grapes in the appointed season; and if you long for it in the winter, you are a fool.
    FROM: The Discourse of Epictetus, (108), Book, Greece
• Clayborne Carson (1)
  • IN: Black Water (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The biggest threat to world peace? Young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, especially if they are unemployed, unmarried and don't own property.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Franklin D. (attribution disputed) Roosevelt (1)
  • IN: Black Water (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He may be a son-of-a-bitch but he's our son-of-a-bitch.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1)
  • IN: Black Water (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Working in the fields, we wore out our hats quickly.
    FROM: The Mute's Soliloquy, (1988), Book, Indonesia