Author: Marjorie Liu

Cites

• S. Eliot, T. (1)
  • IN: Labyrinth of Stars (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Maria Rilke, Rainer (1)
  • IN: Labyrinth of Stars (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am the mother, yet the daughter is more, she is everything that the mother was, and that which the mother was not becomes great in her; she is the future and the immortal past, she is the womb, she is the sea...
    FROM: Variation of 11.4 from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours, (None), Book, Bohemia/Austria
• Rumi (2)
  • IN: The Mortal Bone (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
  • IN: Eye of Heaven (2006) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: “A lover doesn’t figure the odds.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Erasmus Darwin (1)
  • IN: A Wild Light (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Angela Carter (1)
  • IN: A Wild Light (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Edwin Muir (1)
  • IN: The Iron Hunt (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh these deceits are strong almost as life. Last night I dreamt I was in the labyrinth, And woke far on. I did not know the place.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Tang Xianzu (1)
  • IN: The Red Heart of Jade (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Because of you, my flowerlike fair, The swift years like waters flow— I have sought you everywhere, And at last I find you here, In a dark room full of woe—
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, China
• Marjorie Liu (1)
  • IN: Monstress, Volume 1 (2016) Comics, American
    EPIGRAPH: Para Junot, mi labo…este libro no existiria sin ti.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Sana (2)
  • IN: Monstress, Volume 1 (2016) Comics, American
    EPIGRAPH: For everyone who has their own journey.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Monstress, Volume 2 (2017) Comics, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is everywhere, but fewer people perceive it. I keep seeing it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: The Wild Road (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
    FROM: Time and Eternity, (1891), Poem, US
• Sarah William (1)
  • IN: Darkness Calls (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Through my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    FROM: The Old Astronomer To His Pupil, (None), Poem, UK
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Soul Song (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange…
    FROM: The Tempest, (1623), Play, UK
• Pablo Neruda (2)
  • IN: The Last Twilight (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you arise, alive, tomorrow, you’ll be someone else: but something is left from the lost frontiers of the night, from that being and nothing where we find ourselves, something that brings us close in the light of life, as if the seal of the darkness branded its secret creatures with a fire.
    FROM: Sonnet LXXXIII, (None), Poem, Chile
  • IN: After the Blood (2014) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig And lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Chile
• Walt Whitman (1)
  • IN: In the Dark of Dreams (2010) Romace, Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My own songs awakened from that hour, And with them the key, the word up from the waves, The word of the sweetest song and all songs, That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet, (or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet garments, bending aside) The sea whispered me.
    FROM: “Sea Drift” Leaves of Grass, (1855), Poem, US
• Georgina Rossetti, Christina (1)
  • IN: In the Dark of Dreams (2010) Romace, Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams; What seems is not always as it seems...
    FROM: “A Ballad of Boding", (None), Poem, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Legends of Red Sonja (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “…she rode west across the Turanian steppes and into the shadowed mists of legendary.”
    FROM: The Nemedian Chronicles, (None), NULL, NULL

Cited by

• Marjorie Liu (1)
  • IN: Monstress, Volume 1 (2016) Comics, American
    EPIGRAPH: Para Junot, mi labo…este libro no existiria sin ti.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US