Author: Margaret Maron

Cites

• Florence Hartley (1)
  • IN: Rituals of the Season (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Many believe that politeness is but a mask worn in the world to conceal bad passions and impulses, and to make a show of possessing virtues not really existing in the heart; thus, that politeness is merely hypocrisy and dissimulation. Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are themselves practising the deceit they condemn so much . . . True politeness is the language of a good heart.
    FROM: The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, (1873), Book, UK
• NULL (4)
  • IN: Hard Row (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That most farmers have had “a hard row to hoe” during the last few years is a fact which admits of no argument. The famous poets who never plowed a furrow in their lives go into raptures over rural life.
    FROM: Profitable Farming in the Southern States, (1890), Book, US
  • IN: Killer Market (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man, as classified at the head of the organic evolution of intelligence upon this planet, is a measurer, and, as symbols of his true domination of the world, a rule and a pair of scales would be much fitter and more expressive of his glory than a crown and a sceptre.
    FROM: The Great Industries of the United States, (1872), [NA], US
  • IN: Sand Sharks (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here’s to the land of the long leaf pine, The summer land where the sun doth shine, Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here’s to “down home,” the Old North State!
    FROM: Official North Carolina Toast, (1957), [NA], US
  • IN: Southern Discomfort (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The construction drawings, plus the specifications to be described later, are the chief sources of information for the supervisors and craftsman responsible for the actual work of construction.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• George Ellison (1)
  • IN: High Country Fall (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Great Smokies are the largest single mountain range in eastern North America. Even so, they are but a small piece of the jigsaw puzzle that makes up the Southern Blue Ridge Province. So, if you live in the Smokies region, you can wake up every single morning and say to yourself: “Well now, here I am in the general area of the Great Smoky Mountains, a mountain range on the western front of the Southern Blue Ridge Province, a part of the Blue Ridge Province, one of the four provinces in the Southern Appalachians, a part of the Appalachian Mountains, which are probably named after a Florida Indian tribe.
    FROM: Smoky Mountain News, (None), [NA], US
• Jones Chapel (1)
  • IN: Home Fires (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fire cleanses but the Blood of the Lamb Washes whiter than snow
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Sir Blackstone, William (1)
  • IN: Sand Sharks (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law.… If the wife be injured in her person or her property, she can bring no action for redress without her husband’s concurrence.
    FROM: Commentaries on the Laws of England, (1765), Book, UK
• Edward Hopper (1)
  • IN: Shooting at Loons (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Jesus, Saviour, pilot me Over life’s tempestuous sea: Unknown waves before me roll, Hiding rocks and treacherous shoal; Chart and compass come from Thee, Jesus, Saviour, pilot me.
    FROM: Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me, (1871), Song, US
• Willis Isbister Milham (1)
  • IN: Winter's Child (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It might seem that the turbulent squall cloud is very vigorous compared with the gentle air currents which build it,but it must be remembered that the squall cloud is near the axis of the whirl.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• James Cameron (1)
  • IN: Three-Day Town (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
    FROM: Here is Your Enemy, (1966), Book, Canada