Author: Minette Walters

Cites

• Eric Hoffer (1)
  • IN: The Cellar (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
    FROM: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movement, (1951), Book, US
• Aesop (1)
  • IN: Fox Evil (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass entered into an agreement to assist each other in the chase. Having secured a large booty, the Lion on their return from the forest asked the Ass to allot his due portion to each of the three partners in the treaty. The Ass carefully divided the spoils into three equal shares and modestly requested the two others to make the first choice. The Lion, bursting into a great rage, devoured the Ass. Then he requested the Fox to do him the favor of making the division. The Fox accumulated all that they had killed into one large heap and left to himself the smallest possible morsel. The Lion said, "Who has taught you, my excellent fellow, the art of division? You are perfect to a fraction." He replied, "I learned it from the Ass, by witnessing his fate." Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
    FROM: The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass, (-525), Short Story, Greece
• NULL (9)
  • IN: Fox Evil (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: alopecia areata-baldness occuring in patches on the scalp, possibly caused by a nervous disturbance. (Gr. alopekia, fox-mange, a bald spot, alopekoeides, fox-like-alopex, fox)
    FROM: Chambers English Dictionary, (1872), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Devil's Feather (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Devil’s feather (derivation Turkish)-a woman who stirs a man’s interest without realizing it; the unwitting cause of sexual arousal
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Chameleon's Shadow (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) – Some common disabilities include problems with . . . behaviour and mental health (depression, anxiety, personality changes, aggression, acting out and social inappropriateness).
    FROM: Wikipedia, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Sculptress (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Wax Sculpture Malice and superstition were also expressed in the formation of wax images of hated persons, into the bodies of which long pins were thrust in the hope that deadly injury would be induced in the person represented. Belief in this form of black magic never died out completely
    FROM: Encyclopaedia Britannica, (1998), Definition, UK
  • IN: The Chameleon's Shadow (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) -- Some common disabilities include problems with ... social function (empathy, capacity for compassion, interpersonal social awareness and facility) and mental health (depression, anxiety, personality changes, aggression, acting out and social inappropriateness).
    FROM: Wikipedia, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Shape of Snakes (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tics are categorised as Motor or Vocal, Simple or Complex.... Complex symptoms include: Body jerking, Skipping, Hitting, Walking on toes, Talking to oneself, Yelling, Coprolalia -- vocalizing obscene or other socially unacceptable words or phrases.... Tics increase as a result of tension or stress.
    FROM: Kansas City Chapter of the Tourette Syndrome Association, (None), NULL, US
• Thucydides (1)
  • IN: The Devil's Feather (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “The secret of happiness is freedom; the secret of freedom, courage.”
    FROM: The History of the Peloponnesian War, (-431), Book, Greece
• Robert Burns (1)
  • IN: The Ice House (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
    FROM: "To a Louse", (1786), Poem, UK
• Matthew Arnold (2)
  • IN: Dark Room (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And we forget because we must And not because we will
    FROM: "Absence", (1852), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Dark Room (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And we forget because we must And not because we will.
    FROM: "Abscence", (None), Poem, UK
• Brian Masters (2)
  • IN: Dark Room (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The idea of the False Self was put forward by R. D. Laing, adapting some theories of Jean-Paul Sartre. The false self was an artificially created self-image designed to concur with expectations, while the true self remained hidden and protected.
    FROM: Killing for Company, (1985), Book, UK
  • IN: The Dark Room (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The idea of the False Self was put forward by R. D. Laing, adapting some theories of Jean-Paul Sartre. The false self was an artifically created self-image designed to concur with expectations, while the true self remained hidden and protected.
    FROM: Killing for Company, (1985), Book, UK
• Michael Crichton (1)
  • IN: Disordered (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No man is so good as to be free trom all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.
    FROM: Eaters of the Dead, (1976), Novel, US
• E. M. Forster (2)
  • IN: Echo (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life ... it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage-they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
    FROM: A Passage to India, (1924), Novel, UK
  • IN: The Echo (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life... it had managed to murmur, "Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value."
    FROM: A Passage to India, (1924), Novel, UK
• William Blake (2)
  • IN: Echo (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
    FROM: "The Sick Rose", (1794), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Echo (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm. Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, UK
• St John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke (1)
  • IN: Sculptress (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
    FROM: Reflections upon Exile (1716), (1716), Book, UK
• Ken Kesey (1)
  • IN: Sculptress (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “It was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me and the great voice of millions chanting, “Shame.Shame. Shame.” It’s society’s way of dealing with someone different.”
    FROM: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, (1962), Novel, US
• Margaret Atwood (1)
  • IN: The Shape of Snakes (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Unhappiness has a habit of being passed around.
    FROM: BBc Radio 4's Book Club, (1999), NULL, Canada