Author: Michel Faber

Cites

• J. H. Grey (1)
  • IN: The Crimson Petal And The White (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The girls that are wanted are good girls Good from the heart to the lips Pure as the lily is white and pure From its heart to its sweet leaf tips. The girls that are wanted are girls with hearts They are wanted for mothers and wives Wanted to cradle in loving arms The strongest and frailest lives. The clever, the witty, the brilliant girl There are few who can understand But, oh! For the wise, loving home girls There’s a constant, steady demand.
    FROM: The Girls that are Wanted, (1880), NULL, NULL
• Alfred Tennyson (1)
  • IN: The Hundred and Ninty-Nine Steps (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: So word by word, and line by line, The dead man touch’d me from the past…
    FROM: In Memoriam, (1850), Poem, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Fire Gospel (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: For I testify unto every man that beareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues, that are written in this book.
    FROM: John, aka Iohannes, 'of Patmos', i.e. of unknown origin but resident on Patmos at time of writing, circa 95 or 96 AD, or possibly 68 or 69 AD, or possibly some other time, from an unnamed document later known as The Apocalypse, aka Revelation, reprinted in The Bible (1611), translated purportedly by Thomas Ravis, George Abbot, Richard Eedes, Giles Tomson, Sir Henry Savile, John Peryn, Ralph Ravens and John Harmar, but substantially based on The Bible (1526) translated by William Tyndale [uncredited]., (96), Religious Text, NULL