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Cites

• Victor Hugo (1)
  • IN: NULL (None) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
    FROM: The History of a Cime, (1877), Essay, France
• Plutarch (1)
  • IN: NULL (None) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
    FROM: Parallel Lives, (100), Book, Greece
• Horace (8)
  • IN: The dispensary transvers'd: or, the consult of physicians. A poem. In six canto's. Occasion'd by the death of his late H. the D. of G-r. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: praetulerim Scriptor delirus, inersque videri; Dum mea delectent mala me, vel deniq; fallant, Quam Sapere, et ringi
    FROM: Epistulae 2.2, (-14), Book, Italy
  • IN: The hypocrites: a satyr. (1703) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Utor permiffo ------- Adeo sanctum est Vetus omne poema.
    FROM: Epistularum liber secundus, (-14), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The locusts: or, chancery painted to the life, and the laws of England try'd in forma pauperis. A poem. (1704) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Odi profanum Vulgus & arceo.
    FROM: Carmina/The Odes, Book 3, (-13), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Luctus Britannici, a poem, to the memory of Sir Robert L'Estrange. The late most ingenious refiner of the English tongue. By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge. (1705) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus, Tam chari captitis? Praecipe lugubres Melpomene cantus.
    FROM: Carmina/The Odes, Book 1, Ode 24, (-13), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Otia votiva: or, poems upon several occasions. (1705) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Operosa Parvus Carmina fingo
    FROM: Carmina/The Odes, (-13), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Sir Giddy Whim, or, the lucky amour. A comedy. (1703) Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Unus utria; Error sed variis illudit partibus
    FROM: Satires, (-33), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Moderation display'd, the second part. Represented in the Church of England's Ghost. (1705) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Mutato nomine, de te Fabula narratur
    FROM: Satires, (-33), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The art of tickling-trouts; or, the grand secret of philosophers: Shewing The Method how all Faculties and Professions in the World affect the false Arts of Wheedle, Cant and Flattery, to please Fools and deceive Wise Men. in verse and prose: (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Dulce est desipere in loco
    FROM: Odes, (-13), Poem, Italy
• Philip K. Dick (2)
  • IN: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What best can I do? Exactly what I’ve done. My voice for the voiceless.
    FROM: The Exegesis, (2011), Book, US
• Toussaint L'ouverture (1)
  • IN: The Emerald Stone (None) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I was born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a freeman.
    FROM: North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920,, (None), Website, Haiti
• NULL (13)
  • IN: NULL (1909) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: O incredulite, the wit of fooles That slovenly will spit on all thinges faire, The coward's castle and the sluggard's cradle, How easy 'tis to be an infidel!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The believer's farewel to the world, or, an elegie on the death of that much honoured, truly worthy, and religious gentleman Sir Robert Hamilton Son to Sir Thomas Hamilton, of Prestoun who dyed upon the 21st. of October 1701. Aged 51 Years. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: christiadum mors est lachrymosa terminus aevi ducit ad aetheres baec via sola vias
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The fable of the cuckoo: or, the sentence on the ill bird that defiled his own nest. Shewing, in a dissenter's dream, some satyrical reflections, on a late infamous libel, call'd, The true-born Englishman. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Survey the Globe, no nation bears a Name,/ That has not heard Renown'd Britannia's Fame,/ Who long has th' Darling of the World been call'd,/ And her blest Sons for Arts and Arms extoll'd:/ Her Senate in August Assembly met,/ Shew a diffusive Power, so Nobly Great,/ Such Justice, WIsdom, Themes for Sacred Story:/ Envy may Cloud, but ne'er Eclipse her Glory.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, NULL
  • IN: The heaven-Drivers. A poem. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: in nomine domini incipit omne malum
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: The triumph of the great L-d S- (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Magnanimum Aeacidam, formidatamq; Tonanti ------- Progeniem, &c.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Courtnay Earl of Devonshire; or, the troubles of the Princess Elizabeth. A tragedy. Comprehending a great part of the reign of Queen Mary, with the death of Jane Gray. (1705) Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Quod non dat Historia dabit Histrionia
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: A net for the d---l: or, the town display'd. A satyr. Written in a plain English stile (1705) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Since all the Town with Writing is possest, I'll Verify in spight, and do my Best, To make as much wast Paper as the Rest.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oh! Jesus, could we always keep Our eyes on Thee, the living way, We then, though now but wand'ring sheep, Should no more err, or go astray; But wheresoe'er Thou goest, we Would follow on most cheerfully.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The flight of the pretender, with advice to the poets. A poem, in the Arthurical, Jobical, Elizabethecal style and phrase of the sublime poet Maurus. (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Quoquo Disfugias pavens Mabili, Nostrum non poteris latare Nasum
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Juvenal (2)
  • IN: The english gentleman justified. A poem. Written on the occasion of a late scurrilous satyr, intituled, The True-Born-Englishman. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Semper Ego Auditor tantum Nunquanene Reponam Vexatus Toties
    FROM: Satires, Book 1, (200), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Nine satyrs, or moral poems. Written by a plain, right down lover of truth and honesty. (1703) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
    FROM: Satires, Book 8, (200), Poem, Italy
• Ovid (4)
  • IN: An historical poem upon his late Majesty King James II. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Gravis est jactura Sepulchri
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Anna in anno mirabili: or, the wonderful year of 1702. A rehearsal. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Ut desint Vires, tamen est laudanda Voluntas
    FROM: Epistulae Ex Ponto, (-17), Poem, Romania
  • IN: Ornatissimus joculator: or, the Compleat Jester. Containing, 1. celebrated jests, 2. merry jokes, 3. witty punns, 4. Notorious Bulls, 5. Pleasant Tales, And 6. Uncommon and Delightful Stories. Accurately collected, and plac'd under their Proper and Distinct Heads. To which is added, Wit's activity display'd: Instructing the meanest Capacity how to perform several Pieces of Art and Ingenuity to the Wonder and Admiration of the Spectators. (1703) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Semel in Anno rider Apollo
    FROM: Heroides, (-16), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The leaden-age. A poem. (1705) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: De duro est ultima Plumbo, Protenus erumpit venae Pejoris in Aevum Omne Nefas
    FROM: Metamorphorses, Book 1, (8), Poem, Italy
• Virgil (13)
  • IN: Britannia's loss. A poem on the death of England's Cæsar. (1702) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: -------- It Clamor ad alta Atria, concussam bacchatur Sama per urbem, Lamemis gemituque & faemineo ululatu Tecta fremunt, resonat magnis plangoribus aether.
    FROM: Aeneid, Book 4, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The fashionable lover; or wit in Necessity A comedy. (1706) Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Deserta per auin Dulcis, Raptat Amor.
    FROM: Georgics, Book 3, (-29), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The seditious insects: or, the levellers assembled in convocation. A poem. (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: At cum Incerta volant, caeloq; Examina ludunt Contemnuntq; Favos, & frigida tecta relinquunt, Instabiles Animos iudo prohibebis Inani Nec magnus prohebere labor. Tu regibus alas Eripe ----
    FROM: Georgics, Book 4, (-29), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The prince of Wales: a poem. (1702) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Nescia Mens hominum fati sortisque futurae, Et Servare modum rebus Sublata Secundis; Turno tempus erit, magno cum aptaverit emptum Intactum Pallanta.
    FROM: Aeneid, Book 10, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The mournful congress, a poem, on the death of the illustrious King William III. Of glorious memory. By a sincere lover of his Prince and country. (1702) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ostendent Terris Hunc tantum Fata, neque Ultra Esse sinent.
    FROM: Aeneid, Book 6, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Ormondus redux. An heroick poem to His Grace the Duke of Ormond, on his victorious expedition to Spain. His auspicious government of Ireland: and prosperous return to England. (1704) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Super Garamantas & Indos Proferet Imperium.
    FROM: Aeneid, Book 6, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Liberty. A poem. (1705) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Exudent alii Spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem: vivos ducent de marmore vultus; Orabunt causas melius; caelique meatus Describent radio, & Surgentia sidera dicent: Tu regere imperio populos, Regina, memento: Hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subjectis, & debellare superbos.
    FROM: Aeneid, Book 6, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: On the victory at Ramelies. A pindaric. (1706) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Arma, Virumque Cano.
    FROM: Aeneid, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Audenarde, a poem, inscrib'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bridgwater. (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Multaque per caecum congressi praelia noctem, Conserimus, multos Danaum dimittimus Orco.
    FROM: Aeneid, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The cupulo. A poem. Occasion'd by the vote of the House of Commons, for covering that of St. Paul's with British copper. (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Hic Templum Junoni ingens Sidonia Dido Condebat, Donis Opulentum, et Numine Divae. Aerea cui Gradibus Surgebant Limina, nexaeq; Aere trabes: Foribus Cardo Stridebat ahenis.
    FROM: Aeneid, Book 1, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: A dialogue between Louis le Petite, and Harlequin le Grand. (1708) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Dum memor ipse mihi, dum Spiritus hos regit Artus pro re pauca loquor.
    FROM: Aeneid, Book 4, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The merchants advocate, a poem, In an Imitation of Juvenals XIII. satyr. (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Troes te Miseri, ventis maria omnia vecti Oramus: prohibe infandos a Navibus Ignes, ----- Et proprius Res aspice nostras.
    FROM: Aeneid, (-19), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Celadon, or, the bright example; a pastoral on the death of His Royal Highness the P. of Denmark. Inscrib'd to the Court and Quality of Great Britain. (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Me tamen Urit amor: quis enim Modus adsit amori.
    FROM: Eclogues, (-38), Poem, Italy
• Plautus (1)
  • IN: The english muse: or, a congratulatory poem. Upon Her Majesty's accession to the throne of England. (1702) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nanc habe bonum animum. Eheu! Iluic illud dolet.
    FROM: Captivi, (1870), Play, Italy
• Samuel Butler (1)
  • IN: The modern Whig dictator: or, the exultation: a satyr. (1702) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: That Man is sure to lose, That fouls his hands with dirty Foes.
    FROM: Hudibras, Part II, Canto III, (1684), Poem, UK
• John Wilmot Rochester (1)
  • IN: The modern Whig dictator: or, the exultation: a satyr. (1702) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Nor can weak Truth your reputation save, The Knaves will all agree to call you Knave.
    FROM: A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, (1679), Poem, UK
• Lucretius (1)
  • IN: The prince of Wales: a poem. (1702) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Magis in dubiis hominem Spectare periclis Convenit, adversisque in rebus noscere qui sit: Nam verae voces tum demum pectore ab imo Ejiiciantur, & eripitur persona, manet Res.
    FROM: De Rerum Natura, Book 3, (-50), Poem, Italy
• Persius (2)
  • IN: The prince of Wales: a poem. (1702) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Magne Pater Divum, Saeos punire Tyrannos Haud magis, hac ratione, potes, (cum dira Libido Moverit Ingenium ferventi tincta Veneno;) Virtutem ut videant, intabescantque relicta.
    FROM: Satires, Book 3, (None), Poem, Italy
  • IN: Nine satyrs, or moral poems. Written by a plain, right down lover of truth and honesty. (1703) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: P. O Curas hominum! O Quantum est in rebus inane! M. Quis leget haec?
    FROM: Satires, Book 1, (100), Poem, Italy
• Bible (4)
  • IN: An anniversary ode on Her Majesties birth-day, being the sixth day of February, 1702/3. (1702) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And let Her own Works Praise Her in the Gates
    FROM: Proverbs 31:31, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: A special meditation concerning good letters and good manners: shewing, I. That both must needs meet together in the same Person, to make a good Church-Man. II. That 'tis easier, and better to be a good Man than a great Scholar. III. That the defect of Human Learning, in one that findeth it too late, or too hard to be attained, should at least be supplied by extraordinary goodness of Manners. The design of which three-fold ..., is to lay a Foundation for several Questions thereupon raised, for a discovery of what is contrary to goodness of Manners. That none may think himself as good as he ought to be, who both needs and deserves to be interrogated according to the tenor of those Questions. (1703) Non-Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Thou that teachest another, teachest thou not thy Self?----- Thou that makest thy boast of the Law, thro' breaking the Law dishonerest thou God?
    FROM: Romans 2:21-23, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Three poems, Mahanaim, or, strivings with a saviour, ... Peniel, or the combatant triumphing, ... And the triumph consummat, ... By an experienced admirer of sanctified afflictions. (1706) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Persecuted; but not Forsaken
    FROM: 2 Corinthians 4:9, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: A collection of prophetical warnings of the eternal spirit, Pronounc'd by the following Persons, viz. Mary Aspinal, Mary Beer, aged 13. Thom. Dutton, Thom. Emes, John Glover, Ann Good, aged 11 Elizab. Grey, Mary Keemer, Anna Maria King, aged 13 John Lacy, John Moor, John Moult, aged 15 John Potter, Mary Turner, Ann Watts. (1708) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Blow the Trumpet in Sion, and sound an Alarm in my Holy Mountain: Let all the Inhabitants of the Land tremble: for the Day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand.
    FROM: Joel 2:1, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Lucius Anneaus Senecae (2)
  • IN: Poems on several occasions: Together with some odes in imitation of Mr. Cowley's stile and manner. (1703) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Solus Sapiens Scit amare.
    FROM: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, (65), Letter, Italy
  • IN: Sir Giddy Whim, or, the lucky amour. A comedy. (1703) Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Illi gravi Mori incubat Qui notus nimis omnibus, Ignotus moritur fibi
    FROM: Thyestes, (62), Poem, Italy
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: The Spectre of the Mountain of Grenada: A Romance, Volume II. (1811) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Be thou a Spirit of Health, or Goblin damn'd; Bring with thee airs from Heav'n, or blasts from Hell Be thy intent wicked or charitable, — Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
• Marcus Tullius Cicero (1)
  • IN: The female wits: or, the Triumvirate of Poets At rehearsal. A comedy. As it was Acted several Days successively with great Applause at the Theatre-Royal In Drury-Lane. By Her Majesty's Servants. (1704) Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Ita Astutim Sibi Arrogat Hominem Ingenia Ut Homines credas
    FROM: The Mourning Bride A Tragedy: As It Is Acted At The Theatre In Lincoln's-Inn-Fields By His Majesty's Servants, (1697), [NA], Italy
• Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1)
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Gaze on—'tis lovely! Childhood's lip and cheek, Mantling beneath its earnest brow of thought; Gaze! Yet what seest thou in those fair, and meek, And fragile things, as but for sunshine wrought? Thou seest what grief must nurture for the sky, What death must fashion for eternity.
    FROM: Evening Prayer At A Girl's School, (1826), Poem, UK
• James Montgomery (1)
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Night is the time to weep: To wet with unseen tears Those graves of memory, where sleep The joys of other years. Hopes that were angels in their birth But perished young, like things of earth.
    FROM: Night, (1830), Poem, UK
• Thomas Edward Hankinson (1)
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Rejoice, sweet orphan, though to you The world have lost its gaudy hue, And youth's wild hopes, and dizzy mirth Can never be your lot on earth, A calmer, purer light is shed Along the lonely path you tread. The kindred dead shall hover near, And whisper in the spirit's ear, And ease the load and still the strife, And smooth the ruggedness of life.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, NULL
• Caroline Fry (1)
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The Christian would not have his lot Be other than it is, For while his Father rules the world He knows that world is his. When clouds of sorrow gather round, His bosom owns no fear: He knows, whate'er his portion be, His God will still be there.
    FROM: The Christian's Tears, (None), Poem, UK
• Thomas Gisborne (1)
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: When mercy points where Jesus bleeds, And faith beholds Thine anger cease, And hope to blank despair succeeds; This, Father, this alone is peace.
    FROM: The Hour Of Peace, (1813), Poem, UK
• John Denham (1)
  • IN: Poems on the four last things: viz. I. Death. II. Judgment. III. Hell. IV. Heaven. (1706) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Learn to live well, that you may dye so too; To live and dye is all you have to do.
    FROM: Of Prudence, (1668), Poem, UK
• Cicero (1)
  • IN: Three poems, Mahanaim, or, strivings with a saviour, ... Peniel, or the combatant triumphing, ... And the triumph consummat, ... By an experienced admirer of sanctified afflictions. (1706) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: O vitae Philosophia (Christiana) dux! Virtutum indagatrix, vitiorum expultrix, unus dies ex te & praeceptis tuis actus peccanti Immortalitati est anteponendus
    FROM: Tusculan Disputations, (-45), Book, Italy
• Horatius Bonar (1)
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Jesus! my sorrow lies too deep For human sympathy; It knows not how to tell itself To any but to Thee. Jesus! my fainting spirit brings Its fearfulness to Thee: Thine eye, at least, can penetrate The clouded mystery.
    FROM: The Bible Hymn-Book, (1845), Hymn, NULL
• Toplady (1)
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Lo! He beckons from on high! Fearless to His presence fly; Thine the merits of His blood; Thine the righteousness of God! Angels, joyful to attend, Hovering round thy pillow, bend, Wait to catch the signal given, And escort thee quick to Heaven.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• C. F. Richardson (2)
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Heaven There is bliss, there is bliss, in the regions above, They have opened the gates of the sky; A spirit has soared to those mansions of love, And seeks for admittance on high; And friends long divided are hasting to meet In a land where no sorrow may come, And seraphs are eager a sister to greet, And to welcome the child to its home. There is bliss, there is bliss, at the foot of the throne; See the spirit, all purified; bend, And it beams with delight, since it gazes al On the face of a Father, a Friend! There it joins in the anthems forever that rise, Its folly and frailty forgiven; It is dead to the earth, and new-born to the skies: And this is the portion of Heaven!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sallustius (1)
  • IN: An essay upon pastoral; together with some brief reflexions on eclogue verse. Written by a gentleman of quality. (1708) Non-Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Animi imperio corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum Diis, alterum cum belluis commune est. Quo mihi rectius videtur, Ingenii quam virium opibus Gloriam quaerere; & quoniam vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est, memoriam nostri quam maxime longam efficere.
    FROM: Bellum Catilinae, (-75), Book, Italy
• John Dryden (1)
  • IN: The seditious insects: or, the levellers assembled in convocation. A poem. (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But when the Swarms are eager of their Play, And loath their Empty Hives, and idly stray, Restrain the wanton Fugitives, and take A timely Care to bring the Truants back, The Task is easie: but to clip the Wings Of their Highflying Arbitrary Kings.
    FROM: The Works of Virgil, (1697), Poem, UK

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    EPIGRAPH: "When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself."
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    EPIGRAPH: I must be a Christian child Gentle, patient, meek and mild; Must be honest, simple, true In my words and actions too. . . Must remember, God can view All I think, and all I do.
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    EPIGRAPH: "Auckland / A turtle which explorer Captain Cook gave to the King of Tonga in 1777 died yesterday. It was nearly 200 years old. The animal, called Tu'imalila, died at the royal palace ground in the Tongan capital of Nuku, Alofa. The people of Tonga regarded the animal as a chief, and special keepers were appointed to look after it. It was blinded in a bush fire a few years ago. Tonga radio said Tu'imalila's carcass would be sent to the Auckland Museum in New Zealand."
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• Margaret Atwood (3)
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    FROM: Inscription on a Carthaginian Funerary Urn, (1919), NULL, Ancient Carthage
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    FROM: NULL, (None), Graffiti on the walls of a Kabul teahouse, NULL
• Nathan Hill (1)
  • IN: The Nix (2016) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: There was a king in Savanthi who addressed a man and asked him to round up all the persons in the city who were blind from birth. When the man had done so, the king asked the man to show the blind men an elephant. To some of the blind men he presented the head of the elephant, to some the ear, to others the tusk, the trunk, the body, a foot, the hindquarters, the tail, or the tuft at the end of the tail. And to each one, he said, "This is an elephant." When he reported to the king what he had done, the king went to the blind men and asked them, "Tell me, blind men, what is an elephant like?" Those who had been shown the head of the elephant replied, "An elephant, your . majesty, is like a water jar." Those who had been shown the ear replied,"An elephant is just like a winnowing basket." Those who had been shown the tusk replied," An elephant is just like a plow pole." Those who had been shown the body replied, "An elephant is just like a storeroom." And each of the others likewise described the elephant in terms of the part they had been shown. Then. saying, "An elephant is like this, an elephant is not like that! An elephant is not like this, an elephant is like that!" they fought each other with their fists. And the King was delighted.
    FROM: The Udāna: Inspired Utterances of the Buddha, (None), Buddhist Scripture, NULL
• Philip Roth (3)
  • IN: Goodbye, Columbus (1959) Novella, American
    EPIGRAPH: The heart is half a prophet
    FROM: Yiddish proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: I Married a Communist (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Many songs have I heard in my native land -- Songs of joy and sorrow. But one of them was deeply engraved in my memory: It's the song of the common worker. Ekh, lift up the cudgel, Heave-ho! Pull harder together, Heave-ho!
    FROM: "Dubinushka", a Russian folksong. In the 1940s performed and recorded, in Russian, by the Soviet Army Chorus and Band, (1940), Song, Russia
  • IN: Portnoy's Complaint (1967) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Portnoy's Complaint (pôrt' -noiz kem-plānt') n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Alice Walker (1)
  • IN: Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the axe came into the forest, the trees said the handle is one of us.
    FROM: Bumper Sticker, (1982), NULL, NULL
• Kurt Vonnegut (2)
  • IN: Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: The cattle are lowing, / The Baby awakes. / But the little Lord Jesus / No crying He makes.
    FROM: Away in a Manger, (1875), Song, UK
  • IN: The Sirens of Titan (1959) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules -- and still there are some misfits who insists that there is no such thing as progress.
    FROM: Fern, Ransom K., (1959), Fictional, NULL
• Lulu Wang (1)
  • IN: The Lily Theatre (1997) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The sea / of sorrow / stretches / into infinity // But / turn around: / at your feet / lies the save shore.
    FROM: Buddhist saying, (None), NULL, NULL
• Stieg Larsson (3)
  • IN: The Girl who played With Fire (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The first-degree equation (the linear equation): 3x-9=0 (root:x=3)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: 18% of the women in Sweden have at one time been threatened by a man.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Robert Swindells (1)
  • IN: Brother in the Land (1984) Fiction, Children Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He who places his brother in the land is everywhere.
    FROM: The Papyrus Ipuwer, (-1710), Historical Text, Egypt
• Peter Ackroyd (1)
  • IN: The Plato Papers (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We who survive, we scoured ones, in depths of dark dismay, call out of the night of our world, gone as we knew it, as we know it.
    FROM: London, hymn, (1999), Hymn, UK
• Nicola Barker (1)
  • IN: The Yips (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: yips (y ps). pl. n. Nervousness or tension that causes an athlete to fail to perform effectively, especially in missing short putts in golf.
    FROM: The Free Dictionary, (2003), Dictionary definition, NULL
• Susanne Antonetta (1)
  • IN: Body Toxic (2001) Non-Fiction, Biography, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is a Cassill? A case full of vomit. What is a Cassill? A case full of vomit.
    FROM: Bajan schoolboys' chant, (None), Song, NULL
• Julian Barnes (3)
  • IN: Talking it Over (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He lies like an eye-witness.
    FROM: Russian saying, (1925), Saying, Russia
  • IN: The Noice of Time (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One to hear One to remember And one to drink
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, Russia
  • IN: The Noise of Time (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One to hear One to remember And one to drink.
    FROM: Traditional, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ciaran Carson (1)
  • IN: Belfast Confetti (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...that the Mastive dogs belonginge to Butchers, Tanners and other inhabitants dwelling in this Corporation and the suburbs and ffields thereunto belonginge, have Barbarously ffallen upon horses in Carrs, upon the Street, and also horses out of carrs, And have violently Torne and abused them, That some of them have been in hazard to die, And also ffallen upon several cattell bothe upon the Streets and in the ffields. Inso much that serverall catell are mightily abused, and some of them killed to the great loss of many of the poore Inhabitants of this Corporacon. And also that the said Dogs have ffallen upon sverall mena nd boyes ipon the Streets and Lanes of this Towne and suburbs thereunto belonginge, and have pult them to the Ground, Torne their cloathes and Torne some of their fleshe and eaten the same Insomuch that many Inhabitants ffeare their lives to walk the streets or laines either by night or day for the said dogs and Bitches...
    FROM: Ordinance of the Corporation of Belfast, (1678), NULL, NULL
• Anthony Burgess (4)
  • IN: The Malayan Trilogy (1972) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Malay state of Lanchap and its towns and inhabitants do not really exist.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Shakespeare (1970) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... Omeraviglioso mondo nuovo Che hai di questa gente
    FROM: La Tempesta, (None), NULL, Italy
  • IN: 1985 (1978) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 2+2=5; a notice put up in Moscow...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
  • IN: A Vision of Battlements (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...Warning of an attack may be given by tingling sensations in the limbs, impairment of vision, flashing lights, a vision of battlements, noises in the ears, mental depression or other phenomena.
    FROM: The Illustrated Family Doctor, (2005), Film, Australia
• Caryl Churchill (1)
  • IN: Plays: 1 (1985) Fiction, Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Onward Christian Soldier, Marching as to war.
    FROM: Christian hymn, (1871), Song, UK
• Bruce Chatwin (1)
  • IN: The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Beware and take care / Of the Bight of Benin. / Of the one that comes out / There are forty go in.
    FROM: Slaver's proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Michael Dibdin (2)
  • IN: Ratking (1988) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Agli amici di quel tempo
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: A Rich Full Death (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The poem's origin probably lies in... a painting in the Pitti Palace in Florence, then supposed to be del Sarto's portrait of himself and his wife; it is now known to be two portraits joined together, is no longer attributed to del Sarto, is not thought to depict the painter or his wife, and has been relegated to storage.
    FROM: Editor's note to Browning's 'Andrea del Sarto', (None), NULL, UK
• Rex Shelley (1)
  • IN: The Shrimp People (1991) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: The ship's new, the rigging's new, sailing suddenly into Malacca. She's new to him, he's new to her, yet knowing at once each other.
    FROM: Old Malay Poem, (None), Poem, NULL
• O Thiam Chin (1)
  • IN: Now that it's Over (2016) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: The heart is but the beach beside the sea that is the world.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Elizabeth Berg (3)
  • IN: Talk Before Sleep (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If we look at the path, we do not see the sky. We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars. Our quest, our earth walk, is to look within, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no separation, only in the mind
    FROM: Native America, source unknown, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Pull of the Moon (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Upon being asked if she knew how to be fifty, Joni Mitchell answered, "It will make itself known."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Once upon a Time, There Was You (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hold on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't leave?
    FROM: The War of the Roses, (1989), Film, UK
• Rita Mae Brown (1)
  • IN: The Hunt Ball (2005) Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Grab a mane and kick on!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Frank Chin (1)
  • IN: Donald Duk (1991) Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: The night we ran, boy, Nobody's faster Sleeper's inside never woke We were afraid of guns
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Thornton Wilder (1)
  • IN: The Ides of March (1948) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gloss: Out of man's recognition in fear and awe that there is an Unkowable come sall that is best in the explorations of his mind, -- even though that recognition is often misled into superstition, enslavement and overconfidence.
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Paraphrase, NULL
• Henry Roth (1)
  • IN: Call it Sleep (1934) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I pray thee ask no questions This is that Golden land
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Madeleine Lee (1)
  • IN: Synaesthesia (2008) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: ... in psychology, the evocation of one kind of sense impression when another sense is stimulated, for example, the sensation of color when a sound is heard; in literature, the description of one kind of sense perception using words that describe another kind of sense perception as in the phrase "shining metallic words"...
    FROM: Encarta Dictionary, (1998), Definition, NULL
• Lisa See (1)
  • IN: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a son is born, Let him sleep on the bed, Clothe him with fine clothes, And give him jade to play... When a daughter is born, Let her sleep on the ground, Wrap her in common wrappings, And give her broken tiles to play...
    FROM: Book of Songs, (-700), NULL, NULL
• David Hare (1)
  • IN: The Absence of War (1993) Fiction, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is observed that when a man is firm inside and gentle without, he is a healer. When he is hard outside and soft inside he is useless.
    FROM: American Indian Legend, (None), Legend, US
• Neil Gaiman (1)
  • IN: The Graveyard Book (2008) Fiction, Supernatural Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Rattle his bones Over the stones It's only a pauper Who nobody owns
    FROM: Traditional Nursery Rhyme, (None), Song, NULL
• John le Carré (2)
  • IN: Our Game (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He who thinks of the consequences cannot be brave.
    FROM: Ingush proverb, (None), Proverb, Russia
  • IN: A Perfect Spy (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man who has two women loses his soul. But a man who has two houses loses his head.
    FROM: Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Howard Jacobson (2)
  • IN: J (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A grey wolf fell into conversation with a tarantula. ‘I love the chase,’ the grey wolf said. ‘Myself,’ said the tarantula, ‘I like to sit here and wait for my prey to come to me.’ ‘Don’t you find that lonely?’ the wolf asked. ‘I could as soon ask you,’ the tarantula replied, ‘how it is that you don’t get sick of taking your wife and kids along on every hunt.’ ‘I am by temperament a family man,’ the wolf answered. ‘And what is more there is power in numbers.’ The tarantula paused to crush a passing marmoset then said he doubted the wolf, for all the help he received, would ever be as successful a huntsman as he was. The wolf wagered a week’s catch on his ability to outhunt the tarantula and, returning to his lair, told his wife and children of the bet. ‘You owe me,’ he told the tarantula when they next met. ‘And your proof ?’ ‘Well I expect you to trust my word, but if you don’t, then go ahead and search the wilderness with your own eyes.’ This the tarantula did, and sure enough discovered that of all the wolf ’s natural prey not a single creature remained. ‘I salute your efficiency,’ the tarantula said, ‘but it does occur to me to wonder what you are going to do for sustenance now.’ At this the grey wolf burst into tears. ‘I have had to eat my wife,’ he admitted. ‘And next week I will start on my children.’ ‘And after that?’ ‘After that? After that I will have no option but to eat myself.’ Moral: Always leave a little on your plate.
    FROM: Argument: The Wolf and the Tarantula, (None), Short Story, NULL
  • IN: The Mighty Walzer (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: where dreams and retail collide.
    FROM: Nike ad, (1998), NULL, US
• Lionel Shriver (2)
  • IN: The post-birthday world (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nobody's perfect.
    FROM: "known fact", (None), Saying, NULL
  • IN: Big Brother (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One in Three Would Trade Year of Life for Ideal Body
    FROM: Daily Telegraph Headline, (2011), Article, UK
• Katharine McMahon (1)
  • IN: The Alchemist's Daughter (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: True it is, without falsehood, certain and most true.
    FROM: First Precept of the Emerald Tablet, (750), NULL, Egypt
• Ian McEwan (2)
  • IN: The Children Act (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When a court determines any question with respect to...the upbringing of a child...the child's welfare shall be the court's paramount consideration.
    FROM: Section 1(a), the Children Act, (1989), Legal Document, UK
  • IN: The Child in Time (1987) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...and for those parents, for too many years misguided by the pallid relativism of self-appointed childcare experts...
    FROM: The Authorised Childcare Handbook, HMSO, (1987), Fictional, UK
• David Lodge (3)
  • IN: A Man of Parts (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Parts PLURAL NOUN 1. Personal abilities or talents: a man of many parts. 2. short for private parts.
    FROM: Collins English Dictionary, (1979), Definition, UK
  • IN: Therapy (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Therapy. The treatment of physical, mental or social disorders of disease
    FROM: Dictionary, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Deaf Sentence (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: entence noun. Middle English 1. 2b. 5. 7...
    FROM: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, (1993), Definition, UK
• John Montague (1)
  • IN: Collected Poems (1995) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I had never known sorrow, Now it is a field I have inherited, and I till it.
    FROM: from the Afghan, (None), Proverb, Afghanistan
• O' Grady, Timothy (1)
  • IN: Could Read the Sky (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In remembrance is the secret of redemption.
    FROM: Holocaust memorial, San Francisco, (1984), ***Memorial, US
• Jeff Noon (2)
  • IN: Vurt (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sometimes it feels like the whole world is smeared with Vaz.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Automated Alice (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Now in my trembling days I seek All comfort to be found In contemplation of the past; When we rowed aground At Godstow on the Thames' bank, With my sweet Alice bound. And there beneath a spreading elm I told a tale of joy To a child who smiled to hear This older man's employ. But now that girl is married to Some fine and dashing boy. And I am near my maker's house, There to sup the chalice, With one last tale to tell as time Works my shape with malice; Of how a child will become my Automated Alice. Now in these final days I seek To find a future clime; In which my Alice can escape The radishes of time. Faster, faster ticks the clock that Turns to end this rhyme.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Salman Rushdie (4)
  • IN: Luka and the Fire of Life (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Magic lands lie all around, Inside, outside, underground. Looking-glass worlds still abound. All their tales this truth reveal: Naught but love makes magic real.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Haround and the Sea of Stories (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. As I wander far from view Read, and bring me home to you.
    FROM: NULL, (1990), Author, NULL
  • IN: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She saw the dawn approach, and fell silent, discreetly.
    FROM: The Thousand Nights and One Night, (850), Book, Middle East
  • IN: The Golden House (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Give me a copper penny and I'll tell you a golden story.
    FROM: qtd by Pliny (the cry of street-corner storytellers in ancient Rome), (None), [NA], Italy
• Ann Radcliffe (2)
  • IN: The Italian (1797) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He, wrapt in clouds of myftery and filence, Broods o'er his paffions, bodies them in deeds, And fends them forth on wings of Fate to others: Like the invifible Will, that guides us, Unheard, unknown, unfearchable!
    FROM: NULL, (1797), Author, UK
  • IN: The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance (1794) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fate fits on these dark battlements, and frowns, And, as the portals open to receive me, Her voice, in fullen echoes through the courts, Tells of a namless deed.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Walter Scott (16)
  • IN: The Antiquary (1816) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I knew Anselmo. He was shrewd and prudent, Wisdom and cunning had their shares of him; But he was shrewish as a wayward child, And pleased again by toys which childhood please; As—-book of fables, graced with print of wood, Or else the jingling of a rusty medal, Or the rare melody of some old ditty, That first was sung to please King Pepin’s cradle
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Peveril Of The Peak (1822) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If my reader should at any time remark that I am particularly dull, they may be assured there is a design under it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Essay, UK
  • IN: The Fortunes of Nigel (1822) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Knifegrinder. Story? Lord bless you! I have none to tell, sir.
    FROM: Poetry of the Antijacobin., (None), Poem, UK
  • IN: Quentin Durward (1823) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: La guerre est ma patrie, Mon harnois ma maison, Et en toute saison Combattre c'est ma vie.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sic Itur ad astra.
    FROM: Motto of the Conmgute Arms, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Chronicles of the Canongate (1827) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sic Itur ad astra.
    FROM: Motto of the Conmgute Arms, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Castle Dangerous (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One such name was known Had terror in the accent, and was a warcry, A gathering word, a banner, and a shout Of instant onset and of heady strife.
    FROM: Old Play, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Guy Mannering (1817) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Can no rest find me, no private place secure me, But still my miseries like bloodhounds haunt me ? Unfortunate young man, which way now guides thee, Guides thee from death? The country's laid around for thee—
    FROM: Women Pleated, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Kenilworth (1821) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am an innkeeper, and know my grounds, And study them; Brain o' man, I study them. I must have jovial guests to drive my ploughs, And whistling boys to bring my harvests home, Or I shall hear no flails thwack.
    FROM: The New Inn, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: A Legend of Montrose (1819) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Piobracht au Donuil-dhu, Piobrachet au Donuil, Piobrachet agus S’breittach Feacht an Innerlochy. The war-tune of Donald the Black, The war-tune of Black Donald, The pipes and the banner Are up in the rendezvous of Inverlochy.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Lay of the Last Minstrel A Poem in Six Cantos (1805) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Dum relego, scripsisse pudet; quia plurima cerno, Me quoque, qui feci, judice, digna lini.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Hogg (1)
  • IN: The Mountain Bard (1807) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fain would I hear our mountains ring With blasts which former minstrels blew; Drive slumber hence on viewless wing, And tales of other times renew.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Charles James Lever (2)
  • IN: Cornelius O'Dowd (None) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I care not a fig. For Tory or Wig. But sit in a bowl and kick round me.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer (None) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: We talked of pipe-clay -- regulation caps -- Long twenty-fours -- short culverins and mortars -- Condemn'd the 'Horse Guards' for a set of raps, And cursed our fate at being in such quarters. Some smoked, some sighed, and some were heard to snore; Some wished themselves five fathoms 'neath the Solway; And some did pray -- who never prayed before -- That they might get the 'route' for Cork of Galway.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Thomas Hughes (1)
  • IN: Tom Brown's Schooldays (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As on the one hand it should ever be remembered that we are boys and boys at school, so on the other hand we must bear in mind that we form a complete social body... a society, in which, by the nature of the case, we must not only learn, but act and live: and act and live not only as boys, but as boys who will be men.
    FROM: Rugby Magazine, (1835), Article, NULL
• Graham Swift (2)
  • IN: Waterland (1983) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Historia, -ae, f. 1. inquiry, investigation, learning...
    FROM: Dictionary, (None), Definition, NULL
• Yuri Leving (1)
  • IN: Anatomy of a Short Story (2012) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Anatomy - from Latin anatomia, Greek anatome (ana: separate, apart from, and temnein, to cut up, cut open)
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Nicholas Hogg (1)
  • IN: Show me the Sky: Why Might a Man Walk out on his Life? (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: missing adj. 1. not present; absent or lost. 2. not able to be traced and not known to be dead. go missing to become lost or disappear
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Jasper Fforde (3)
  • IN: The Eyre Affair (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ". . . The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. "If you want to be a SpecOp," the saying goes, "act kinda weird . . ."
    FROM: A Short History of the Special Operations Network, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Eye of Zoltar (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I don't do refunds.
    FROM: The Mighty Shandar, (2014), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Big Over Easy (2005) Fantasy Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the kings horses And all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
    FROM: Traditional, (None), NULL, NULL
• Tash Aw (1)
  • IN: The Face: Strangers on a Pier (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Pom mai ben Thai. Watashi no nihonjinde wanaidesu. Jaesonghaeyo, han-guk saram ahniaeyo. Bukan orang Indonesia. Ma Nepali ta hoina. Ways to say what we are not, and to begin the story of what we are.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jeanette Winterson (1)
  • IN: Sexing the Cherry (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?
    FROM: NULL, (1989), Author, UK
• A.D. Miller (1)
  • IN: Snowdrops (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Snowdrop. !. An early-flowering bulbous plant, having a white pendent flower. 2. Moscow slang. A corpse that lies buried or hidden in the winter snows, emerging only in the thaw.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Robertson Davies (1)
  • IN: Leaven of Malice (1954) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness that we may always serve Thee in pureness of living and truth
    FROM: The Prayer Book, (1662), Book, NULL
• Robert Kroetsch (1)
  • IN: Badlands (1974) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But suddenly a joyous impulsion seized him: the joy of having his wife again overwhelmed him. He jumped to his feet and rushed over to embrace her. His wife cried out. "Stop! Stop! Coyote! Do not touch me. Stop!" Her warning had no effect. Coyote rushed over to his wife and just as she touched her body she vanished. She disappeared - returned to the shadowland.
    FROM: "Coyote and the Shadow People", Nez Perce Texts, (1934), NULL, NULL
• Michael Ondaatje (5)
  • IN: The English Patient (1992) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Most of you, I am sure, remember the tragic circumstances of the death of Geoffrey Clifton at Gilf Kebir, followed later by the disappearance of his wife, Katherine Clifton, which took place during the 1939 desert expedition in search of Zerzura." "I cannot begin this meeting tonight without referring very sympathetically to those tragic occurences..." "The lecture this evening..."
    FROM: From the minutes of the Geographical Society meeting, (NULL), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (1989) Fiction, Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Deep colour and big, shaggy nose. Rather a jumbly, untidy sort of wine, with fruitiness shooting off one way, firmness another, and body pushing about underneath. It will be as comfortable and comforting as the 1961 Nuits St Georges when it has pulled its ends in and settled down.
    FROM: Magazine description of a wine, (1967), Magazine, NULL
  • IN: Warlight (2018) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Most of the great battles are fought in the creases of topographical maps.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Anil's Ghost (2000) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In search of a job I came to Bogala I went down the pits seventy-two fathoms deep Invisible as a fly, not seen from the pit head Only when I return to the surface Is my life safe... Blessed be the scaffolding deep down in the shaft Blessed be the life wheel on the mine's pit head Blessed be the chain attached to the life wheel...
    FROM: Miner's folk song, Sri Lanka, (None), Song, Sri Lanka
  • IN: In the Skin of a Lion (1987) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion.
    FROM: The Epic of Gilgamesh, (-1800), Poem, Mesopotamia
• Roy Heath (1)
  • IN: Kwaku (or The Man who Could Not Keep His Mouth Shut) (1982) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Rain leaves puddles behind Gauze under the moon Stray from porch to porch Settle for the window With trembling wires Where abandoned kites Twist in the wind
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Romesh Gunesekera (1)
  • IN: Monk-Fish Moon (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There are no monkfish in the ocean around Sri Lanka.
    FROM: NULL, (1992), author, NULL
• Ben Okri (1)
  • IN: Dangerous Love (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I was walking through a dark forest when it happened. The trees turned into mist. And when I looked back I saw the dead girl. She walked steadily towards me. She didn't have a nose or a mouth. Only a bright pair of eyes. She followed me everywhere I went. I saw a light at the end of the forest and I made for it. I didn't get there.
    FROM: Extract from a notebook, (None), NULL, NULL
• Cyprian Ekwensi (1)
  • IN: People of the City (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways
    FROM: NULL, (2004), Author, NULL
• Kit Fan (2)
  • IN: Paper, Scissors, Stone (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Paper, as opposed to Egyptian papyrus, was first made by the Chinese eunuch Cai Lun from the bark of trees, remnants of hemp, rags of cloth, and fishing nets.
    FROM: The Four Great Inventions of Ancient China, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bharati Mukherjee (1)
  • IN: The Tree Bride (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All kings must see hell at least once. Hence you have for a little while been subjected to this great sorrow.
    FROM: Mahabharata (translated by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan), (1997), NULL, India
• Daniyal Mueenuddin (2)
  • IN: In Other Rooms, In Other Wonders (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Three things for which we kill - land, women and gold.
    FROM: Punjabi proverb, (None), Proverb, Punjabi
  • IN: In Other Rooms Other Wonders (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Three things for which we kill -- Land, women and gold.
    FROM: Punjabi proverb, (None), Proverb, India
• Preeta Samarasan (1)
  • IN: Evening is the Whole Day (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The sun goes down and the sky reddens, pain grows sharp, light dwindles. Then is evening when jasmine flowers open, the deluded say. But evening is the great brightening dawn when crested cocks crow all through the tall city and evening is the whole day for those without their lovers.
    FROM: Kuruntokai, translated by George L. Hart, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jane Gleeson-White (1)
  • IN: Australian Classics (2007) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: To the literary mind there is a special interest attaching to fiction or other matter written in and of Australia. There are not many English-speaking lands left from which we may look for new developments in English literature. Australia is one of the few, and very interesting it is to watch her progress in letters.
    FROM: Athenaeum, (1904), NULL, UK
• Amish Tripathi (3)
  • IN: The Secret of Nagas (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Satyam Shivam Sundaram Shiva is truth. Shiva is beauty. Shiva is the masculine. Shiva is the feminine. Shiva is a Suryavanshi. Shiva is a Chandravanshi.
    FROM: NULL, (2011), Author, NULL
  • IN: The Immortals of Meluhr (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Om Namah Shivay. The universe bows to Lord Shiva. I bow to Lord Shiva.
    FROM: NULL, (2010), Author, NULL
  • IN: The Oath of the Vayuputras (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Har Har Mahadev All of us are Mahadevs, all of us are God. For His most magnificient temple, finest mosque and greatest church exists within our souls.
    FROM: NULL, (2013), Author, NULL
• Thomas Keneally (1)
  • IN: Flying Hero Class (1991) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: A question heard among Western Australian desert Aboriginal tribes: "Who dreamed you, Carried you, Set you down?"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Nigel Cox (1)
  • IN: The Cowboy Dog (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Where the tumbleweeds roll Beneath the sign of the cactus And the stars shine down On the desert road While the mountain watches The wind sighs its resignation I fondle my guns And deliver my load
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• George Orwell (1)
  • IN: Coming Up for Air (1939) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He's dead, but he won't lie down.
    FROM: Popular Song, (1932), Song, NULL
• Philip MacDonald (1)
  • IN: The Rasp (1979) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All the Bird of the Air Fell a-sighin' and a-sobbin' When they heard of the death OF poor Cock Robin "Who'll dig his Grave?" "I," said the Owl, "With my little Trowel; I'll dig his Grave." "Who killed Cock Robin?" "I," said the Sparrow, "With my Bow and Arrow," I killed Cock Robin
    FROM: Who Killed Cock Robin, (1770), Poem, UK
• Buck Song Koh (2)
  • IN: The Ocean of Ambition (2003) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: to measure the extent of Nature's nuisance no matter how they strive to mask and maintain
    FROM: Tiananmen Square 1995, (1995), NULL, NULL
• Nuraliah Norasid (2)
  • IN: The Gatekeeper (2017) Fantasy, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: What is life's greatest illusion? Innocence, my brother.
    FROM: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, (2011), Riddle, NULL
• Eric Alagan (1)
  • IN: Code Shield: A Peek Into Singapore's Secret Services (2011) Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: With clenched fists and pursed lips / Wrinkled brow and shut eyes / Whither into this unknown? / A realized dream you are, / A renewed bond you wrought, / A sunburst into our lives. / Worlds two, blended in perfection, / With song and music in harmony, / Wisdom, behold your child. / A woman now, / A child still, / A true gift of God.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Derik Mosman (1)
  • IN: A Modern Boy (1996) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: I'm just a poor lost soul / Dancing madly in the cold
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Isaac Cheong (1)
  • IN: The Golden Eagle Supremacy: Sands of Time (2008) Fantasy, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: It's significant to everyone's self, / so must we save it? / Yet isn't killing it without sympathy / the thought of the oblivious? / It determines who laughs/ determines who cries, / and determines whether fate is / Or isn't / Those appreciated / Love it, / Yet those isolated, / Despise dwelling its length / A part of it vanished from my life / So in others' time I love upon / How much must I endure / To mend the torn parts of my time?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Eugene Tay (1)
  • IN: Supernatural Confessions: You Are Not Alone (None) NULL, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: When you're little, night time is scary because there are monsters hiding right under the bed. When you get older, the monsters, are different and though you may be older and wiser, you still find yourself scared of the dark. Sleep. It's the easiest thing to do. You just close your eyes. But for so many of us, sleep seems out of our grasp. We don't know how to get it. But once we face our demons and face our fears, night time is not so scary because we realise we aren't all alone in the dark.
    FROM: Grey's Anatomy, (2008), NULL, US
• Tammy L Wong (1)
  • IN: A is for Achar, L is for Love (2011) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Now we are talking about local architecture, and you seem a little less remote. At the end of our conversation, you invite me to look at a house that is temporarily vacant. I am not sure why you have asked me, but the pleasure, ah, the pleasure of seeing for myself such an iconic building is too tempting. And so I greedily say, Yes. And so I see you again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Shamini Flint (1)
  • IN: Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School of Villany (2010) Crime Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death.
    FROM: Singapore Penal Code, (1872), Book, Singapore
• Ravinder Singh (2)
  • IN: I Too Had a Love Story (2008) Novel, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Days pass by somehow / But nights now are a wagon of pain / Injuries may heal with time / But marks will always remain / Restless on my comfortable bed / I toss and turn and try to sleep / But thoughts are bulking my head / And have formed a huge heap / The past is flashing its scorching light beams / Tearing me apart, breaking me at the seams / The darkness of my life is more visible in dark / And now I am trying to give it a voice, trying to speak my heart
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Minfong Ho (1)
  • IN: Rice Without Rain (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Like the rice, we live in wait for the rain. / In times of drought, we wither in the fields. / How many of us must die of hunger, / Before the few of them can live in splendour? / Like the rice, like the withered rice, / We live in wait for the rain.
    FROM: A thai folk song, (None), Song, Thailand
• Woo Keng Thye (2)
  • IN: Winds of Change (1991) Novel, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Smiling through your eyes Shedding a glimmer, a hint Your charmed elegance A fine vintage, sparkling bourbon Like the Champs Elysees; We nursed the emotion Warming the chilled wine Sweet and mellow Real and unreal Leaving a residual Tangy flavour; Yielding last night's memory In the morning tea.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, NULL
  • IN: Web of Tradition (1986) Novel, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: The quiet painting carves itself Deep within a lone landscape Sending you smoke etchings Seven shades of Chinese black Embers from a warm pipe.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, NULL
• Ovidia Yu (1)
  • IN: Miss Moorthy Investigates (1989) Mystery, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Why here? It's so dark here. I can hear the city traffic somewhere below us. Suddenly. Around my neck. Drawing tighter. I can't breathe. Choking. Blackness rises. Now I know. Too late.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Chung Yee Chong (1)
  • IN: Five Takes (1974) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Kings, Queens, and Knights everywhere, and I'm the only pawn
    FROM: The Lion in Winter, (1968), Film, US/ England
• Ee Lin See (1)
  • IN: My Kiasu Teenage Life in Singapore (2005) Novel, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: kiasu Hokkien (kja:su:) ADJECTIVE scared to lose, competitive
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Christine Chia (1)
  • IN: Separation: A History (2014) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Imagine families being torn apart, unrooted, and separated by borders. You may think that this only happened in countries like Korea, Russia and Vietnam, where the separation of powers divided them. But it once happened here, when Singapore left Malaysia on August 9, 1965, after an unstable, short-lived union. On that day, a tearful Lee Kuan Yew announced that Singapore was a sovereign and independent nation, making Singapore the only country in the modern world to gain independence against its own will.
    FROM: The Star, (2013), Article, NULL
• Chin Woon Ping (1)
  • IN: The Naturalization of Camellia Song & Details Cannot Body Wants (1993) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Camellia, genus of about eighty species of East Asian evergreen shrubs and trees belonging to the tea family (Theaceae), most notable for a few ornamental flowering species and for Camellia sinensis (sometimes called Thea sinensis), the source of tea. The common camellia (C. japonica) is well known, particularly for its double (many-petaled) cultivated varieties, whose overlapping petals range in colour from white through pink to red and variegated.
    FROM: The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, (None), Book, NULL
• Grace Chua (1)
  • IN: The Stamp Collector's Wife (2010) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: this was supposed to be the future / where is my jetpack / where is my robot companion / where is my dinner in pill form
    FROM: Slogan on T-shirt, (None), NULL, NULL
• Elangovan (1)
  • IN: O$P$ (2004) NULL, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: An eagle once flew into the sky with a piece of meat. Many crows gathered after it and attacked it ivciously. The eagle finally let the piece of meat drop. The crows then left it alone and flew shrieking after the mouthful. The eagle smiled, "I've lost the meat and gained this peaceful sky."
    FROM: An Indian parable, (None), NULL, India
• Clive En-Kai (1)
  • IN: Aporia: A Novella (2011) Novella, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Aporia is a Greek philosophical concept that means an impasse in inquiry, usually involving triangulation between two strands of argument - pushing the subject into states of doubt and limbo - with or without the possibility of transcendence.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Tracy Alexander (1)
  • IN: Alias (2015) Mystery, Thriller, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: IBB, YEMEN – The CIA has declined to comment on reports of a drone strike in the Ibb province of Yemen. Several missles were fired, killing two members of the same family who were working in the fields of a remote village. A local source said, 'Yesterday's victims were a grandmother and her granddaughter - they were picking okra. We are simple farmers. The only thing people here know about America is that it kills our people. American drone strikes do not fight terrorism, they fuel it.' Despite President Obama's announcement that no strikes would be authorised unless there is 'near certainty that no civilians would be killed or injured', this is the eleventh confirmed drone strike in Yemen this year. Civilian deaths as a result are estimated at between 17 and 33, including 3 children.
    FROM: Newswire, (None), Article, NULL
• Laurie Halse Anderson (3)
  • IN: Catalyst (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Organic substances exist as molecules with covalent bonds holding the individual atoms together.
    FROM: ARCO Everything You Need to Score High on AP Chemistry, 3rd Edition, (1997), NULL, US
• Austin Aslan (1)
  • IN: The Islands At the End of the World (2014) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That which is above will come down / That which is below will rise up / The islands will unite / The walls shall stand firm.
    FROM: Ancient Hawaiian Prophecy, (None), NULL, US
• Steve Backshall (3)
  • IN: Wilds of the Wolf (2014) Action, Adventure Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: An old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside us. "My son" he said. "The battle is between two wolves inside us all. "One is Evil - anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. "The other is Good- joy , peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith," The grandson thought about this, then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
    FROM: Cherokee legend, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: Tiger Wars (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.
    FROM: Sutta Nipata II, 14, (None), NULL, India
  • IN: Ghost of the Forest (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
    FROM: Cree Indian Prophecy, (None), NULL, India
• David Baldacci (5)
  • IN: The Finisher (2014) Fiction, Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons hoping to unearth an allegory will be summarily ordained.
    FROM: NULL, (2014), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Sixth Man (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The only thing potentially worse than not being able to see the forest for the trees is not being able to see the trees because of the forest.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Whole Truth (2008) Fiction, Political Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why waste time discovering the truth when you can so easily create it?
    FROM: The person quoted above requested anonymity as he was not authorized to speak on the record as to matters of truth., (None), Conversation, NULL
  • IN: The Keeper (2015) Fiction, Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: To escape from the Quag means imprisonment forever
    FROM: Madame Astrea Prine, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Tom Becker (1)
  • IN: Afterwalkers (2014) Horror Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: . . .suddenly, he saw / a joyless woods leaning over/ turbid and bloody water
    FROM: Beowulf, (1815), Poem, UK
• Kendare Blake (1)
  • IN: Mortal Gods (2014) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Aristeia: From the Greek word for excellence. A moment in epic poetry when a hero is untouchable, in which they display their utmost skill and valor; when they are almost a god.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Libba Bray (2)
  • IN: Lair of Dreams (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To believe in one's dreams is to spend all one's life asleep.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Kathleen Burkinshaw (1)
  • IN: The Last Cherry Blossom (2016) Historical Fiction, Military & War Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Imperial Japanese Army continues successful attacks against China.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Japan
• Jessica Burkhart (1)
  • IN: Wild Hearts: An If Only Novel (2015) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cowboy proverb: The bigger the buckle, the better the cowboy.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Cecil Castellucci (2)
  • IN: Tin Star (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To the stars! To the stars! We all make homes among the stars!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Cassandra Clare (1)
  • IN: Clockwork Princess (2015) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Marry on Monday for health, / Tuesday for wealth, / Wednesday the best day of all, / THursday for crosses, / Friday for losses, and / Saturday for no luck at all
    FROM: Folk rhyme, (None), NULL, NULL
• David Clement-Davies (1)
  • IN: Fire Bringer (1999) Adventure, Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When the Lore is bruised and broken, / Shattered like a blasted tree, / Then shall Herne be justly woken, / Born to set the Herla free.
    FROM: Herla Prophecy, (1999), Prophecy, UK
• Ken Baker (1)
  • IN: How I Got Skinny, Famous, And Fell Madly in Love (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: FREEDOM noun. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Malorie Blackman (1)
  • IN: Noble Conflict (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Crusade - a vigorous movement or enterprise against poverty or a similar social evil; a personal campaign undertaken for a particular cause.
    FROM: Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, UK
• Coriell Shelley (1)
  • IN: Goodbye, Rebel Blue (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: bucket list (noun) - A list of things you want to do before you die; comes from the phrase kick the bucket (to die)
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Laurie Boyle Crompton (1)
  • IN: Blaze (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hear me X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am FIRE! And LIFE INCARNATE! Now and forever... I am PHOENIX!
    FROM: Jean Grey, The Uncanny X-Men #138, (1980), Book, US
• Linda Davies (1)
  • IN: Longbow Girl (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other green with leaves...
    FROM: Mabinogion, (None), Book, UK
• De La Cruz, Melissa (1)
  • IN: The Ashley Project (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, "What about the strain on our resources?" Well, it's like when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right? I put R.S.V.P. ' cause it was a sit-down dinner. But some people came that, like, did not R.S.V.P., so I was, like, totally buggin'. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, squish in extra place settings, but by the end of the day, it was like, the more the merrier! And so, if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians. And in conclusion, may I please remind you it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty! Thank you very much.
    FROM: Clueless, (1995), Film?, NULL
• Kimberly Derting (1)
  • IN: The Taking (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The moment you look away from the sky, a shooting star will appear.
    FROM: Murphy's Law, (1949), NULL, NULL
• Diane Duane (3)
  • IN: Games Wizards Play (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When moon and sun stand each in place / And your opponent takes the field, / Look past him to the one you'll face / When all hid truths stand new-revealed. / When that time comes, your only shield / Will be the outward gaze toward space; / The cold will show what sword to wield / Against the fire's and death's embrace. / Still, though your oldest foe should yield, / Beware the last fall of the dice: / Though now an ancient sorrow's healed, / Beware who pays the final price — / And do not miss, 'twixt fire and ice, / Your chance to make the sun rise twice.
    FROM: I Ching trigram 30, Fire over Fire: "Double Brightness", (-925), NULL, China
  • IN: A Wizard of Mars (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The one departed | is the one who returns From the straigtened circle | and the shortened night, When the blue star rises | and the water burns: Then the word long-lost | comes again to light To be spoke by the watcher | who silent yearns For the lost one found. Yet to wreak aright, She must slay her rival | and the First World spurn Lest the one departed | no more return.
    FROM: The Red Rede, 1-8, (2010), Fictional, NULL
• Kevin Emerson (3)
  • IN: The Dark Shore (2013) Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Call: Listen! Listen for the song! / Response: Where has that sweet music gone? / Call: She's gone with the river, gone with the trees, / Response: Gone and left us on our knees. / Call: Listen! Listen! What's that you hear? / Response: The wind of change, the drum of fear. / Call: Hear our footsteps, hear our hearts, / Response: Is this the end, or just the start?
    FROM: Traditional Great Rise Migration chant, (None), NULL, NULL
• Margarita Engle (2)
  • IN: Silver People (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Panama: an indigenous name meaning "land of many butterflies"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal (2014) Historical Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Panamá: an indigenous name meaning "land of many butterflies"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Helen Falconer (2)
  • IN: The Dark Beloved (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Gra: The Irish word for love, with strong connotations of hunger and desire
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Changeling (2015) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Wahu: Greeting used in the west of Ireland, possibly derived from the Irish Adh-thu (luck be with you)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Nancy Bo Flood (1)
  • IN: Solder Sister, Fly Home (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Feathers fly, Carrying a heartbeat Fly home, Blue Horse, Lii Dootl'izhii
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Kami & Stohl, Margaret Garcia (1)
  • IN: Dangerous Deception (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
    FROM: Pliny the Elder, (None), NULL, Italy
• Sara Grant (1)
  • IN: Half Lives (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Half-life: 1) the time required for half of something to undergo a process: as a. the time required for half of the atoms of a radioactive substance to become disintegrated b. the time required for half the amount of a substance (as a drug, radioactive tracer, or pesticide) in or introduced into a living system or ecosystem to be eliminated or disintegrated by natural processes 2) a period of usefulness or popularity preceding decline or obsolescence
    FROM: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition, (2012), Defintion, NULL
• Ryan Graudin (1)
  • IN: Wolf By Wolf (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The rotten bones are trembling, of the world before the red war.
    FROM: From the official song of the Hitler Youth, (1932), Song, Germany
• Lorie Ann Grover (2)
  • IN: Firstborn (2014) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Creator Spirit moved through the empty. His whisper twirled into being desert, waters, and sky. With a soft sigh, he made man and rapion to glorify Him through their days. You shall worship the Creator Spirit and no other.
    FROM: The R'tan Oracles of Faith, (None), NULL, NULL
• Miriam Halahmy (1)
  • IN: The Emergency Zoo (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If you and your family have to leave home at very short notice, on no account leave your animals in the house or turn them into the street. If you cannot place them in the care of neighbours, it really is kindest to have them destroyed.
    FROM: extract from 'Advice to Animal Owners' Ministry of Home Security, (1939), NULL, NULL
• Cynthia Hand (1)
  • IN: The Last Time We Say Goodbye (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
    FROM: Hindu Proverb, (None), Proverb, India
• Christian McKay Heidicker (1)
  • IN: Cure for the Common Universe (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You know, in some human sports, the winner is the one who scores the fewest possible points.
    FROM: GLaDOS, Portal 2, (2011), Fictional (video game), NULL
• Chelsie & Love, Jessica Hill (1)
  • IN: Push Girl (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: push girl \'push 'gar(-e)l\ noun 1. A fierce, fearless woman who doesn't let life's challenges get in the way of what she wants. 2. Anyone who overcomes adversity with a never-say-die attitude and sense of humour
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Colleen Houck (3)
  • IN: Recreated (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lost! Lost! Lost! O lost my love to me! He passes by my house, nor turns his head, I deck myself with care; he does not see. He loves me not. Would God that I were dead! God! God! God! O Amun, great of might! My sacrifice and prayers, are they in vain? I offer to thee all that can delight, Hear thou my cry and bring my love again. Sweet, sweet, sweet as honey in my mouth, His kisses on my lips, my breast, my hair; But now my heart is as the sun-scorched South, Where lie the fields deserted,grey and bare. Come! Come! Come! And kiss me when I die, For life, compelling life, is in thy breath; And at that kiss, though in the tomb I lie, I will arise and break the bands of Death.
    FROM: A Woman's Lost Love, (None), Poem, Egypt
  • IN: Reawakened (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh! when my lady comes, And I with love behold her, I take her into my beating heart And in my arms enfold her; My heart is filled with joy divine For I am hers and she is mine. Oh! when her soft embraces Do give my love completeness, The perfumes Arabia Anoint me with their sweetness; And when her lips are pressed to mine I am made drunk and need not wine.
    FROM: The Wine of Love, (None), Poem, Egypt
• Anna Lee Huber (1)
  • IN: The Anatomist's Wife (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Be sure to live your life, because you are a long time dead.
    FROM: Scottish Proverb, (None), Proverb, UK
• Lucy Inglis (1)
  • IN: Crow Mountain (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You already possess everything necessary to become great.
    FROM: Apsaalooke Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Philip Kerr (4)
  • IN: The Winter Horses (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Prezewalski's: pronounced "shuh-VAHL-skeez"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Berlin Noir (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: First Man: Have you noticed how the March Violets have managed to completely overtake Party veterans like you and me? Second Man: You're right. Perhaps if Hitler had also waited a little before climbing on to the Nazi bandwagon he'd have become Fuhrer quicker too.
    FROM: Schwarze Korps, (1935), NULL, Germany
  • IN: March Violets (1989) Crime Fiction, Detective fiction, Historical mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: FIRST MAN: Have you noticed how the March Violets have managed to completely overtake Party veterans like you and me? SECOND MAN: You're right. Perhaps if Hitler had also waited a little before climbing on to the Nazi bandwagon he'd have become Führer quicker too.
    FROM: Schwarze Korps, November 1935, (1935), Speech, Germany
  • IN: If the Dead Rise Not (2009) Mystery, Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
    FROM: From the 1559 book of Common Prayer, (1559), NULL, NULL
• Jessi Kirby (1)
  • IN: Things We Know by Heart (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: heart (n): a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation; the center of the total personality, especially with reference to intuition, feeling, or emotion the central, innermost, or vital part of something
    FROM: defintion of the word heart, (None), Definition, NULL
• Amber Kizer (1)
  • IN: Speed of Light (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every morning lean thine arms awhile on the window still of Heaven and gaze upon the Lord. Then, with that vision in thy heart, turn strong to meet the day.
    FROM: Unknown, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Klise (1)
  • IN: The Art of Secrets (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: According to Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, in Chicago, Illinois, "outsider art" can be defined as the "work of artists who demonstrate little influence from the mainstream art world and who instead are motivated by their unique personal visions."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Stephanie Kuehn (1)
  • IN: Complicit (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For every truth best left a lie
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mike Lancaster (1)
  • IN: DotWav (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.
    FROM: African Proverb, (None), Proverb, Africa
• Lindsey Lane (1)
  • IN: Evidence of Things Not Seen (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We leave pieces of ourselves everywhere. Every time we meet someone, they take some of us and we take some of them. That's how it is. Little particles stick us together. Bit by bit. I think it's how we get whole.
    FROM: On a piece of notebook paper found on the side of the US 281, (None), NULL, US
• Christina Lauren (1)
  • IN: Sublime (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: sublime 1. (adjective) transcendent; complete, absolute 2. (transitive verb) to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Trisha & Currie, Lindsay Leaver (2)
  • IN: Sweet Madness (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: Creed (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
    FROM: African Proverb, (None), Proverb, Africa
• Anne Boles Levy (2)
  • IN: The Well of Prayers (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You see no purpose in travelling among the galaxies and taking their measure, you are content to watch life unfold on planets whose air you will never breathe. I cannot bear such sameness, each eon unfolding as the last. Let me journey, let me stray, let me see how no day on one world shall dawn the same as on another. I am brave enough to face wherever comes, assured that the worst danger is the one yet to come, on a day still several days away. You are content to stand still and remain unnamed. I am not made this way.
    FROM: Verisimilitudes 9, The Book of Unease, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: The Temple of Doubt (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The demons have drove me from the stars and would hunt me to the far reaches of the unreachable end of the universe. They take different forms and different names but always pursue the same purpose: to erase my name from existence. Yet I will be here to greet the end when it comes, the dying breath of Creation, the moment between order and chaos, the time when time stops. I will stand on the edge of infinity and say my name. My name is Nothing.
    FROM: Versimilitudes 9, The Book of Unease, (None), Book, NULL
• Jessica Lidh (1)
  • IN: The Number 7 (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Det some göms i snö, kommer fram vid tö. (What is frozen in snow is revealed at thaw.)
    FROM: Swedish proverb, (None), Proverb, Sweden
• Leza Lowitz (1)
  • IN: Up from the Sea (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Perseverance becomes its own kind of strength
    FROM: Japanese saying, (None), Saying, Japan
• C.J. Lyons (2)
  • IN: Watched (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: cap-per [kap-er] Noun, slang: 1. An informer. 2. A person who captures covert screenshots for the purpose of blackmail, bullying, sexual gratification, or to trade among online communities.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Katie McGarry (1)
  • IN: Dare You To (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.
    FROM: Old Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Gretchen McNeil (1)
  • IN: I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sadness is easier because it's surrender. I say, make time to dance alone with one hand waving free.
    FROM: Elizabethtown, (2005), Film, US
• Nicole Maggi (1)
  • IN: Winter Falls (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am a Benandante because I go with the others to fight... I go... in spirit and the body remains behind...
    FROM: the trial of Paolo Gasparutto, (1580), NULL, NULL
• Sara Manning (1)
  • IN: The Worst Girlfriend in the World (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: She's my best friend and I hate her.
    FROM: Heathers, (1989), Film, US
• Chrisoph Marzi (1)
  • IN: Memory (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: I see thee still! Thou art not dead Though dust is mingling with thy form The broken sunbeam hath not shed The final rainbow on the storm.
    FROM: Old Inscription at Highgate Cemetery, (None), Inscription, UK
• Lisa Maxwell (1)
  • IN: Unhooked (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whatever the stories may say, not all children grow up. Some lose their lives before their milk teeth. Some run away. Others are taken. Many leap headlong, tempted by a tale of who they might be... Never to find that other shore.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Jacquelyn Mitchard (1)
  • IN: What We Saw at Night (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Etre et durer (To be and to last)
    FROM: the unofficial motto of Parkour, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sarah Mussi (2)
  • IN: Breakdown (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The force behind being is the bee. Without this little creature, all life on our planet would cease to exist.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Break Down (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The force behind being is the bee. Without this little creature, all life on our planet would cease to exist.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Noriko Ogiwara (1)
  • IN: Dragon Sword and Wind Child (1988) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Like the swift flowing waters Parted by a rock in midsteam, We shall be reunited.
    FROM: Sutoku, (None), NULL, Japan
• Louise O'Neill (1)
  • IN: Only Ever Yours (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: In the beginning, Man created the new women, the eves.
    FROM: Audio Guide to the Rules for Proper female Behaviour, the original Father, (None), NULL, NULL
• Simon Packham (1)
  • IN: Only We Know (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There are three dates in the school calendar that I find particularly loathsome: Valentine's Day, for obvious reasons, April Fool's Day (ditto) and the first morning of the Autumn term, when we must exchange the inspirational pursuits of summer for the dehumanising rituals of a new school year.
    FROM: Dido's Lament: 1,000 Things I Hate About School, (None), NULL, NULL
• Fiona Paul (3)
  • IN: Starling (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Infection tunnels deep within, poisoning the blood and sapping one's strength.
    FROM: The Book of the Eternal Rose, (2014), Book, NULL
  • IN: Belladonna (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fire is power. Blood is life.
    FROM: The Book of the Eternal Rose, (2013), Book, NULL
  • IN: Venom (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is human nature to fear the dead, but it is the living who are capable of malice, evil, and utter destruction.
    FROM: The Book of the Eternal Rose, (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Gillian Philip (1)
  • IN: Bad Faith (2008) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Dystopia (n): an imaginary place that is depressinly wretched
    FROM: The Penguin English Dictionary, (2000), Definition, NULL
• Margi Preus (1)
  • IN: The Bamboo Sword (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is constant in this world of change? Yesterday.
    FROM: Japanese Poem, (None), Poem, Japan
• Trent Reedy (2)
  • IN: Divide We Fall (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No armed police force, or detective agency, or armed body of men, shall ever be brought into this state for the suppression of domestic violence, except upon the application of the legislature, or the executive, when the legislature can not be convened.
    FROM: Constitution of the state of Idaho, Article XIV, Section 6, (1890), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Last Full Measure (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In time of war, and by a two-thirds majority vote of both houses of the Legislative Assembly, a state of martial law may be imposed, during which time the rights of the people, enumerated in the first twenty-two sections of Article I may be suspended at the discretion of the President of the Republic of Idaho. Martial law shall continue until the President or a simple majority vote of both houses of the Legislative Assembly chooses to restore the rights granted to the people in the first twenty-two sections of Article I.
    FROM: Constitution of the Republic of Idaho, Article I, Section 23, (1863), NULL, US
• Justin Richards (1)
  • IN: The Wolfstone Curse (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If Death were an animal, she would be a Wolf.
    FROM: Medieval proverb, thought to originate in the Cotswolds, (None), Proverb, UK
• Shelley Coriell (2)
  • IN: Goodbye, Rebel Blue (2013) Contemporary, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: bucket list (noun)—A list of things you want to do before you die; comes from the phrase kick the bucket (to die)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Good Bye, Rebel Blue (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: bucket list (noun) -- A list of things you want to do before you die: comes from the phrase kick the bucket (to die)
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Matthew Crow (1)
  • IN: In Bloom (2013) Contemporary, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Here's a test: Leukaemia. Look at the word quickly then look away. Now, close your eyes and try to spell it. Bet you couldn't? Neither could I.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Joseph Delaney (1)
  • IN: Arena 13: The Prey (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The dead do dream. They dream of the world of Nym and twist hopelessly within its dark labyrinths, seeking that which they can never reach. But for a few, a very few, a wurde is called. It is a wurde that summons them again to life. Cursed are the twice-born.
    FROM: Amabramsum: the Genthai Book of Wisdom, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Melissa de la / Johnston, Michael Cruz (1)
  • IN: Stolen (2014) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Often, for undaunted courage, / fate spares the man it has not already marked
    FROM: Beowulf, (1815), Epic poem, UK
• Lauren DeStefano (2)
  • IN: Burning Kingdoms (2015) Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the world was formed, the people soon followed. It has been a blanacing act of life and death from that day on. It is not the place of any man to question it.
    FROM: The Text of All Things, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Perfect Ruin (2013) Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The first humans were especially ungrateful. After the birth of the sun and the moon, they asked for stars. After the crops rose from the ground, they asked for beasts to fill the fields. After some time, the god of the ground, weary of their demands, thought it best to destroy them and begin again with humbler beings. So it goes that the god of the sky thought the first humans too clever to waste, and he agreed to keep them in the sky with the promise that they would never again interfere with the ground.
    FROM: The History of Internment, (2013), Fictional, NULL
• Laura Dockrill (1)
  • IN: Lorali (2015) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There was a storm in my heart. There was a war in my heart.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Richard Paul Evans (1)
  • IN: If Only (2015) Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To choose the path is to choose the destination. But sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.
    FROM: Grace's Diary, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Laura Ruby (1)
  • IN: Bone Gap (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Aldous Huxley (1)
  • IN: Point Counter Point (1928) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, wearisome conditions of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound, Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity: Created sick, commanded to be sound. What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws -- Passion and reason, self-division's cause?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Jennifer L. Armentrout (2)
  • IN: Sentinel (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some people say when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life gives you one seriously ticked off god gunning for your ass, you prepare for war and you hope for paradise.
    FROM: Andros, Alex (Alexandria), (2013), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Return (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "But these sons whom he begot himself great Heaven used to call Titans in reproach, for he said that they strained and did presumptuously a fearful did, and that vengeance for it would come afterwards." (II. 207-210)
    FROM: The Theogony of Hesiod (translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White), (1914), Book, NULL
• K.D. Castner (2)
  • IN: Daughter of Ruin (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Three little queens went riding into Meridan Three little queens who won't ride out The price of war makes a strange inheritance Four little puppets all pretty and proud.
    FROM: Children's nursery rhyme, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: Daughters of Ruin (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Three little queens went riding into Meridan Three little queens who won't ride out The price of war makes a strange inheritance Four little puppets all pretty and proud.
    FROM: Children's nursery rhyme, (None), Rhyme, NULL
• Brenda Chapman (1)
  • IN: Second Chances (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What if they threw a war and nobody came?
    FROM: American slogan during the Vietnam War, (None), NULL, US
• Joe Schreiber (1)
  • IN: Con Academy (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Excuse me, is that man actually royalty?
    FROM: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, (1988), Film, US
• Michael J. Seidlinger (1)
  • IN: Falter Kingdom (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "You get the invitation, man?" "No, but you'd think I'd get one. It's my exorcism."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sara Shepard (1)
  • IN: Burned (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Loose lips sink ships.
    FROM: American Idiom, (None), Proverb, US
• Holly Smale (5)
  • IN: Head Over Heels (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: head over heels: idiom 1. to be excited, and/or turn cartwheels 2. To fall in love 3. To become temporarily the wrong way up 4. To go at top speed 5. To fall over ORIGIN: an inversion of fourteenth century expression, heels over head, to literally turn upside down
    FROM: dictionary definition, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Picture Perfect (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Model [mod-l] noun, adjective, verb 1. A standard or example for imitation or comparison 2. A representation, generally in miniature 3. An image to be reproduced 4. A person whose profession is posing for artists or photographers 5. To fashion something to be like something else ORIGIN from the Latin modulus: 'absolute value'
    FROM: dictionary definition, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: All That Glitters (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: glitter [gilt-er] verb, noun 1. To sparkle with reflected light 2. To make a brilliant show 3. To be decorated or enhanced by glamour 4. Tiny pieces of shiny ornamentation ORIGIN from the Old English glitenian: 'To shine; to be distingushed'
    FROM: dictionary definition, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Model Misfit (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: fit adjective 1. appropriate or suiting 2. Proper 3. Qualified or competent 4. Prepared 5. In good physical condition Noun 1. Fashionable clothing 2. An onset or period of emotion Colloquial slang 1. To be really, really good looking ORIGIN from the Old English fitt: 'conflict or struggle'
    FROM: dictionary definition, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Sunny Side Up (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Light (noun, adjective, verb) 1. to make things visible or afford illumination 2. To set on fire 3. Pale or not deep in colour 4. Without weight ORIGIN from the Old English leoht - light, shinging bright
    FROM: dictionary definition, (None), Definition, NULL
• Neal Shusterman (1)
  • IN: Thief of Souls (1999) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beware; don't whistle, talk pr laugh into the night. Night eyes are upon you. Guard your soul with light and fear, for you know not what evil lurks in the blackness of that which is, and isn't.
    FROM: Hualapai saying, (None), Saying, US
• Jerry Spinelli (1)
  • IN: Hokey Pokey (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Kids. They live in their own little world.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Andre W. Smith (1)
  • IN: Winger (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: crede quod habes, et habes
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Spain
• Margaret Stohl (1)
  • IN: Black Widow: Forever Red (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love is for children.
    FROM: Romanoff, Natasha, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Elissa Sussman (2)
  • IN: Stray (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There once were four sisters Who were exceptionally ordinary, But desired more than a maiden should desire. Ravaged by their shameful wants Their loving hearts never bloomed Instead four wicked brambles Grew in their place Each tainted With poisonous magic.
    FROM: The Four Sisters 2:16, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Burn (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Recall the four sisters (Extraordinary! Extraordinary!) Who fought for others to be saved They were ravaged by a shameful war Though their loving hearts were brave And so a vengeful bramble Grew thick upon their graves Each thistle then sharpened By the hands of former slaves
    FROM: The Ballad of the Four Sisters, (None), NULL, NULL
• Lydia Syson (1)
  • IN: Liberty's Fine (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Macadam [tarmac]: Has put an end to revolutions; barricades no longer possible. Nonetheless very inconvenient. Ruins: Something to make you dream. Add poetry to a landscape.
    FROM: Dictionary of Accepted Ideas, published from notes made by Flaubert, (1913), Definition, NULL
• Chris Vick (1)
  • IN: Kook (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Kook: (surfer slang): a learner, a wannabe
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Laura Rose Wagner (1)
  • IN: Hold Tight Don't Let Go (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Kenbe fèm, pa lage. (Hold tight, don't let go.)
    FROM: Way to say goodbye in Haitian Creole, (None), Saying, Haiti
• Dana Walrath (1)
  • IN: Like Water on Stone (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where the needle passes, the thread passes also.
    FROM: Armenian proverb, (None), Proverb, Armenia
• Rupert Wallis (1)
  • IN: The Dark Inside (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Homo sapiens Latin for wise or knowing man
    FROM: NULL, (None), Dictionary definition, NULL
• Sandra Waugh (1)
  • IN: Silver Eve (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Moonlight on water brings Nature's daughter. Swift-bred terror and sorrow of slaughter. Silver and sickle, the healing hand, Find the shell's song; bring rain upon land.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sara Whitford (1)
  • IN: The Smuggler's Gambit (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: gam-bit noun \'gam-bet\ - a planned series of moves at the beginning of a game of chess - something done or said in order to gain an advantage or to produce a desired result Full Definition og GAMBIT 1. a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position 2. a. a remark intended to start a conversation or make a telling point b. a calculated move
    FROM: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, (1828), Definition, NULL
• Darcy Woods (1)
  • IN: Summer of Supernovas (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Be humble for you are made of eath. Be noble for you are made of stars.
    FROM: Serbian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Serbia
• Francesca Zappia (1)
  • IN: Made You Up (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Lara Zielin (1)
  • IN: The Waiting Sky (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you used to tell me that you chased tornadoes, deep down I thought it was just a metaphor.
    FROM: Twister, (1996), Film, US
• Sufiya Ahmed (1)
  • IN: Border Town (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Pueblo chico, Infierno grande. Small town, Big hell.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Elana K. Arnold (2)
  • IN: Burning (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mountains do not meet, but people do.
    FROM: Romani saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Jeff Abbott (3)
  • IN: Downfall (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The corruption of the best is the worst.
    FROM: Latin proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
  • IN: The First Order (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Me and my nation against the world Me and my clan against the nation Me and my family against the clan Me and my brother against the family Me against my brother
    FROM: Somali Proverb, (None), Proverb, Somalia
• Ben Aaronovitch (1)
  • IN: The Hanging Tree (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Through the streets our wheels slowly move; The toll of the death bell dismays us. With nosegays and gloves we are deck'd, So trim and so gay they array us. The passage all crowded we see With maidens that move us with pity; Our air all, admiring agree Such lads are not left in the city. Oh! Then to the tree I must go; The judge he has ordered the sentence. And then comes a gownsman you know, And tells a dull tale of repentence. By the gullet we're ty'd very tight; We beg all spectators, pray for us. Our peepers are hid from the light, The tumbril shoves off, and we morrice.
    FROM: Tyburn ballad, (None), NULL, UK
• Cat Adams (3)
  • IN: To Dance With the Devil (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you dance with the devil, you're bound to get burned.
    FROM: Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: To Dance wtih the Devil (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Feud (fyud) n 1 .Also called blood feud. a bitter, continuous hostility, especially between two families, clans, etc., often lasting for many years or generations. 2. A war of revenge or rivalry
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Kevin J. Anderson (1)
  • IN: The Edge of the World (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you reach the edge of the world, you can fly.
    FROM: The Book of Aiden, (2010), Book, NULL
• Sarah Cross (1)
  • IN: Tear You Apart (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I want you to bring me her heart. Her heart -- that's what you want, too…
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• C. J. Daughterty (1)
  • IN: Endgame (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.
    FROM: Japanese proverb, (None), Proverb, Japan
• Kami Garcia (2)
  • IN: The Lovely Reckless (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our heart is like an unfinished puzzle - that is why we search for the perfect one to complete it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Agent of Chaos (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We work in the dark. We do what we can to battle the evil that would otherwise destroy us. But if a man's character is his fate, this fight is not a choice but a calling. Yet sometimes the weight of this burden causes us to falter, breaching the fragile fortress of our mind, allowing the monsters without to turn within. We are left alone staring into the abyss, into the laughing face of madness.
    FROM: The X-Files, (1996), TV Show, US
• Miriam Wiedeback (1)
  • IN: City of a Thousand Dolls (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was the storyteller Elina who spoke for the children. She sat before the Emperor. the Second Lotus Emperor. jangled the bells of her bow. and sang of girls unwanted. of babies left to die. of a future where women were scarcer than gold. And the Emperor listened and hear the words of the singer and her song of sadness. The Emperor listened. and he built a city. All who wanted could bring their daughters to this place. where they would be taught, cared for, and kept safe. And the people honored the Emperor for his wisdom.
    FROM: The Song of Stone and Blood, (None), story-song of Elina the Bow-singer, NULL
• Sara Ella (1)
  • IN: Unblemished (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Once upon a time is ne'er what it seems. And happily ever after oft a mere device of dreams. What wicked snares are vines, and thorns cause many throes. But peer beyond the surface; you may there find a rose.
    FROM: The Reflection Chronicles, (None), Speech, NULL
• F.E. Higgins (1)
  • IN: The Phenomenals (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Mangledore / man-gul-dore / 'man-gluh-dore/ n. The cleanly severed, pickled hand of a convicted, executed criminal, in particular a murderer. The pickling process varies from region to region, but most often involves brown vinegar, sesame seeds and zimort. It is common practice for the fingers to be fixed around a candle (made from the rendered fat of a dead man), but occasionally the index finger is threaded with a wick.Once alight the candle ensures that all sleeping members of a household remain in a state of lethargic somnolence, thus enabling the holder to burgle without fear of discovery. The candle can be quenched only by milk.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Nathan Kotecki (1)
  • IN: Pull Down The Night (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are fortunate to live in a world where we are not limited to experiencing only the things we understand. And as for whether things are possible, if they happen, does it matter whether or not they are possible?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Susan Kreller (1)
  • IN: You Can't See the Elephants (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: The elephant in the room -- a topic that everyone knows about but which, out of fear or a sense of discomfort, no one will discuss.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Maureen Johnson (1)
  • IN: The Key to the Golden Firebird (2004) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Firebird, golden (largous automobilus yellowsih) 1. A car manufactured by Pontiac. In this particular case, a car painted a color called Signet Gold and built in Lordstown, Ohio, in 1967. Almost sixteen feet long, with extremely poor gas mileage and no modern amenities. Has a cream-colored interior and a black convertible top and belches noxious clouds of instant-cancer fumes whenever started. Attracts an unreasonable amount of attention from car buffs (for its collectability) and others (because it's brightly colored, noisy, and as big as a battleship.) 2. A mythical creature prominently featured in Russian folktales. Possesses magical powers. Wherever the Firebird goes, princes, princesses, kings and mad wizards are sure to follow. 3. Presumably, any golden bird that's on fire.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Guadalupe Garcia McCall (1)
  • IN: Summer of the Mariposas (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: mariposa (mah-ree-PO-sah) from the Spanish, mariposa, the apocopate Mari - (Mary in English) and posa (to rest in peace) Butterfly. Mariposas are slender, delicate insects with four wide, colorful wings. In almost every culture, butterflies are associated with transformation. The Aztecs held the butterfly, papalotl, in high regard and had a special celebration to welcome the migrating monarchs in early August every year. They believed that mariposas were the cheerful souls of their loved ones, the angels of women and children, their fallen warriors, their ancestors, returning home transformed to assure them that they were well and that life, however brief, was beautiful.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Norah McClintock (1)
  • IN: Close to the Heel (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The door hath swung too near the hell; But better sore feet than serve the Devil.
    FROM: The Black School, (None), Icelandic folktale, Iceland
• Amanda McCrina (1)
  • IN: His Own Good Sword (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the oppress'd for justice looks in vain, When his sore burden may no more be borne, With fearless heart he makes appeal to Heaven, And thence brings down his everlasting rights, Where there abide, inalienably his, And indestructible as are the stars. Nature's primeval state returns again, Where man stands hostile to his fellw man; And if all other means shall fail his need, One last resource remains - his own good sword.
    FROM: Friedrich, Schiller, Tell, William, (1804), Folk, Switzerland
• Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1)
  • IN: Amy Herbert (1815) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Why should we fear Youth's draught of joy, If pure, would sparkle less? Why should the cup the sonner cloy, Which God hath design'd so bless?
    FROM: Christian Year, (None), NULL, NULL
• Thomas Hardy (3)
  • IN: Jude the Obscure (1895) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The letter killeth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Elizabeth Gaskell (2)
  • IN: North and South (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Wooed and married and a...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Mary Barton: In Two Volumes (1848) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How knowest thou,' may the distressed Novel-wright exclaim, 'that I, here where I sit, am the Foollshest of existing mortals; that this my Long-ear of a fictitious Biography shall not find one and the other, into whose still longer cars it may be the means, under Providence, of instilling somewhat?' We answer, 'None knows, none can certainly know; therefore, write on, worthy Brother, even as thou canst, even as it is given thee.'
    FROM: "Puns and Punsters", (None), Essay, US
• Stephen King (13)
  • IN: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000) Non-fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Liars prosper.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Roadwork (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don't know why. You don't know why. Most likely God don't know why either. It's just Government business, that's all.
    FROM: Man in the street interview concerning Viet Nam, circa 1967, (1967), Speech, US
  • IN: The Shining (1977) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It'll shine when it shines.
    FROM: Folk saying, (None), Saying, NULL
  • IN: Doctor Sleep (2013) Fiction, horror, American
    EPIGRAPH: If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. [It is] the dubious luxury of normal men and women.
    FROM: The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, (1939), Book, US
  • IN: Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993) Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.
    FROM: Spanish Proverb, (None), Proverb, Spain
  • IN: The Tommyknockers (1987) Fiction, Science fiction, Horror Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don’t know if I can, ’cause I’m so afraid of the Tommyknocker man.
    FROM: Traditional, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Cujo (1981) Fiction, Psychological Horror, American
    EPIGRAPH: Old Blue died and he died so hard He shook the ground in my back yard. I dug his grave with a silver spade And I lowered him down with a golden chain. Every link you know I did call his name, I called, “Here, Blue, you good dog, you.”
    FROM: Folk Song, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: Hearts in Atlantis (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We blew it.
    FROM: Easy Rider, (1969), Film, US
  • IN: 11/22/63 (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples.
    FROM: Japanese Proverb, (None), Proverb, Japan
• Benjamin Disraeli (1)
  • IN: The Young Duke (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A moral Tale, though gay.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• John Moore (1)
  • IN: Zeluco (1789) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cur tamen hos tu Evaisse putes, quod diri conscia facti Mens habet attonitos, et surdo verbere caedit, Occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum? Poena autem vehemens, ac multo saevior illis, Quas et Caeditius gravis invenit aut Rhadamanthus, Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• John Dryden (2)
  • IN: Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nunqnamne reponam, Vexam taties ranci Thefeide Codri?
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The History of the League (1684) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Neque enim libertas gratior ulla oft Luam fub Rege Pio
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• George Farquhar (1)
  • IN: The Recruiting Officer (1706) Fiction, Play, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Captique Eolis, donifque coadi.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• José Saramago (6)
  • IN: Seeing (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Let's howl, said the dog
    FROM: The Book of Voices, (2004), Book, NULL
  • IN: The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Until you attain the truth, you will not be able to amend it. But if you do not amend it, you will not attain it. Meanwhile, do not resign yourself.
    FROM: The Book of Exhortations, (1989), Book, NULL
  • IN: The Double (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.
    FROM: The Book of Contraries, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: Blindness (1995) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If you can see, look. If you can look, observe.
    FROM: The Book of Exhortations, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: All the Names (1997) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have.
    FROM: The Book of Certainties, (1997), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Elephant's Journey (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In the end, we always arrive at the place where we are expected.
    FROM: Book of Itineraries, (2010), Fictional, NULL
• Joseph Heller (1)
  • IN: Picture This (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History is bunk, says Henry Ford, the American industrial genius, who knew almost none.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Frank Herbert (3)
  • IN: Dune Messiah (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Such a rich store of myths enfolds Paul Muad'dib, the Mentat Emperor,and his sister Alia, it is difficult to see the real persons behind these veils. But there were, after all, a man born Paul Atrides and a woman born Alia. Their flesh was subject to space and time.And even through their oracular powers placed them beyond the usual limits of time and space, they came from human stock. They experienced real events which left real traces upon a real universe.To understand them, it must be seen that their catastrophe was the catastrophe of all mankind. This work is dedicated, then, not to Muad'dib or his sister, but to their heirs -- to all of us
    FROM: Dedication in the Muad'dib Concordance as copied from the Tabla Memoriumof the Mahdi Spirit Cult, (1969), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: God Emperor of Dune (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This morning I was born in a yurt at the edge of a horse-plain in a land of a planet which no longer exists.Tomorrow, I will be born someone else in another place. I have not yet chosen. This morning though ---ahhh, this life! When my eyes have learned to focus,I looked out at sunshineon trampled grass and I saw vigorous people going about the sweet activities of their lives.Where... oh where has all that vigor gone?
    FROM: The Stolen Journals, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Heretics of Dune (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
    FROM: The Aprocrypha of Arraki, (1983), Fictional, NULL
• Gish Jen (1)
  • IN: Mona in the Promised Land (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He dissolves his bond with his group. Supreme good fortune. Dispersion leads in turn to accumulation This is something ordinary men do not think of.
    FROM: the I-Ching, (-925), NULL, China
• Anna-Marie McLemore (1)
  • IN: The Weight of Feathers (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Una golondrina no hace verano. (One swallow does not make a summer.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Zoe Marriott (1)
  • IN: Barefoot on the Wind (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Red leaves spiral down Chase summer's dying warmth. Run Barefoot on the wind.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Cindy Miles (1)
  • IN: Forevermore (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thig crioch air an t-saoghal, ach mairidh gaol is ceol. (The world will end but love and music endure.)
    FROM: Scottish Gaelic Proverb, (None), Proverb, UK
• Graham Moyson (1)
  • IN: Storyline (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I can see your mind desperately trying to piece this puzzle together. Sometimes I think that our world is just that, a foolish puzzle. We see only our poor, restricted view but someone, somewhere might see it all. I know more than you, prince, much more, and I can solve our little problem, but I can't solve everything.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jane Nickerson (1)
  • IN: The Mirk and Midnight Hour (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And pleasant is the fairyland, But, an eerie tale to tell... Just as the mirk and midnight hour The fairy folk will ride.
    FROM: The Ballad of Tam Lin, (None), Ancient folksong, UK
• Natalie C. Parker (2)
  • IN: Behold the Bones (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hear this the tale of Mad Mary Sweet, Who crawled through the swamp on her hands and her feet, In the wild lost her way, Her voice it did fray, And now she's got none but her teeth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Beware the Wild (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beware the swampy places, child, Beware the dark and wild, Many a soul has wandered there, And many a soul had died.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary E. Pearson (1)
  • IN: The Heart of Betrayal (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Her tears, they ride the wind. She calls to me, And all I can do is whisper, You are strong. Stronger than your pain. Stronger than your grief, Stronger than them.
    FROM: The Last Testaments of Gaudrel, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• A. C. Rought (1)
  • IN: Tainted (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Close your sweet eyes Life does't last long You'd better go sleeping Flying through dreams Close your sweet eyes Because life is a lie Find happiness in dreams Have a good night, my child.
    FROM: Ancient Romanian lullaby, (None), Lullaby, Romania
• Sarah Jamila Stevenson (1)
  • IN: The Truth against the world (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth shines in the dark.
    FROM: Welsh Proverb, (None), Proverb, UK
• C. J. Skuse (1)
  • IN: Dead Romantic (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Alone, bad. Friend, good.
    FROM: The Bride of Frankenstein, (1935), Film, US
• Van Arsdale, Peternelle (1)
  • IN: The Beast is an Animal (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Beast is an animal You'd better lock the Gare Or when it's dark. It comes for you Then it will be too late The Beast is an animal Hear it scratch upon your door IT sucks your soul then licks the bowl And sniffs around for more The Beast is an animal It has a pointy chin It eats you while you sleep at night Leaves nothing but your skin
    FROM: Old Byd Nursery Rhyme, (None), Nursery Rhyme, NULL
• Jessica Warman (2)
  • IN: The Last Good Day of the Year (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hiraeth: n: homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home that maybe never was; nostalgia, yearning, grief for the lost places of your past
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Where the Truth Lies (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Two dogs live within me. The one that grows the largest is the one I feed the most.
    FROM: Native American folktale, (None), [NA], US
• Andrea Alban (2)
  • IN: Anya's War (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The ocean cannot be emptied with a spoon.
    FROM: Yiddish Proverb, (None), Proverb, Germany
• Scott Blagden (1)
  • IN: Dear Life, You Suck (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Crickets, like all other insects, are cold-blooed. They take on the temperature of their surroundings.
    FROM: Wikipedia, (None), Website, NULL
• Jennifer Bryant (1)
  • IN: The Fortune of Carmen Navarro (2010) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The world is a ladder on which some go up and others go down.
    FROM: Gypsy Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Janet Lee Carey (1)
  • IN: Dragonwood (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fire, fire flaming bright, Golden in the autumn night, Warn me with your eldritch sight, What danger comes, and what delight.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bridie Clark (2)
  • IN: Snap Decision: Maybe Tonight? (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Vincit qui se vincit. (One conquers by conquering oneself.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Snap Decision: Maybe Tonight (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Vincit qui se vincit. One conquers by conquering oneself.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ted Bell (3)
  • IN: Phantom (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: Pirate (2005) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From our view, the dominance of the West since the Renaissance was a five-hundred-year mistake that will soon be corrected.
    FROM: HIGH-RANKING CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIAL TO U.S. AMBASSADOR, 2005, (2005), NULL, China
  • IN: Patriot (2015) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The wolves must eat too.
    FROM: ANCIENT RUSSIAN MOTTO, (None), NULL, Russia
• Steve Berry (5)
  • IN: The Columbus Affair (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For 500 years historians have pondered the question: Who was Christopher Columbus? The answer is simply another question: Who do you want him to be?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Venetian Betrayal (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is a divine right of madness, not to be able to see the evil which lies just in front
    FROM: Unknown Danish Playwright, (None), NULL, Denmark
  • IN: The 14th Colony (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January.
    FROM: U.S. Constitution 20th Amendment, (1933), Law, US
  • IN: The Emperor's Tomb (2010) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History is a maiden, and you can dress her however you wish.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
  • IN: The Templar legacy (2006) Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Jesus said, "Know what is within your sight, and what is hidden from you will become clear. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.
    FROM: The Gospel of Thomas, (None), Saying, NULL
• James/Juno Dawson (1)
  • IN: Hollow Pike (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Alas! Experience tells us that there is no number to girls, and consequently the witches that spring from this class are innumerable.
    FROM: The Malleus Maleficarum, (1486), NULL, NULL
• Jorge Amado (1)
  • IN: The Discovery of America by the Turks (1994) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It's time now for us to discover America - said the prophet Tawil - we're a bit late and we're losing money.
    FROM: The Minor Prophets, the secret archives, (None), NULL, NULL
• Gabriel Garcia Márquez (2)
  • IN: Living to Tell the Tale (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
    FROM: NULL, (2002), Author, NULL
  • IN: The General in His Labyrinth (1989) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It seems that the devil controls the business of my life.
    FROM: Letter to Santander, (1823), Letter, NULL
• Chris Bohjalian (1)
  • IN: The Light in the Ruins (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I dream of the hills around Siena, and of my love whom I shall never see again. I shall become one gaping wound-like the winds, nothing.
    FROM: From a note hidden in the seam of the shirt of an anonymous civilian executed by the Gestapo in Rome, (1944), NULL, Italy
• S. J. Bolton (5)
  • IN: Now You See Me (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The most agonising of the East End mysteries is that of the utter paralysis of energy and intelligence on the part of the police.'
    FROM: Daily News, (1888), Article, UK
• Joanna Bourne (1)
  • IN: Rogue Spy (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you must run, carry nothing and never look back.
    FROM: A Baldoni Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Elizabeth Boyle (1)
  • IN: If Wishes Were Earl's (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is but one night, my truest, my dearest, Miss Darby, but it is all I need to carry you into the starry heavens of pleasure. I promise you this, come with me and from this evening forth you shall reign forever as the Queen of my Heart.
    FROM: Miss Darby's Reckless Bargain, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Robert B. Parker (2)
  • IN: Fool Me Twice (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Barbara Taylor Bradford (3)
  • IN: Secrets from the Past (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Memories of love abound, In my heart and in my mind. They give me comfort, keep me sane, And lift my spirits up again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Secrets From the Past (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Memories of love abound, In my heart and in my mind. They give me comfort, keep me sane, And lift my spirits up again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Cavendon Luck (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tinker, tailor, Soldier, sailor, Rich man, poor man, Beggar man, thief.
    FROM: An old english nursery rhyme, (1695), Song, UK
• Jordanna Max Brodsky (1)
  • IN: The Immortals (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I sing of Artemis, whose shafts are of maiden, gold, who cheers on the hounds, the pure maiden, shooter of stags, who delights in archery, own sister to Apollo. Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks she draws her golden bow, rejoicing in the chase, and sends out grievous shafts. And whe she is satisfied and has cheered her heart, this huntress hangs up her curved bow and leads the Muses in dance while they sing how neat-ankled Leto bore children supreme among immortals. Hail to you, children of Zeus and rich-haired Leto!
    FROM: The Homeric Hymn to Artemis, (-550), NULL, NULL
• Frances Brody (2)
  • IN: Murder in the Afternoon (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Saturday 12 May, 1923 Great Applewick Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on a Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. That was the end of Solomon Grundy.
    FROM: Old Rhyme, (1842), Song, UK
  • IN: A Death in the Dales (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The heart may be misplaced from birth. I have seen a case in which it lay upon the right side, and had always been in that position. Its action was natural. A variety of causes may tend to push it out of its place.
    FROM: Virtue's Household Physician, (1925), NULL, NULL
• Cathy Marie Bunchanan (1)
  • IN: The Painted Girls (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: No social being is less protected than the young Parisian girl-by laws, regulations, and social customs.
    FROM: Le Figaro, (1880), Article, France
• M. L. Buchman (1)
  • IN: Pure Heat (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On Earth, something is always burning!
    FROM: NASA "Fire and Smoke" website, (None), NULL, NULL
• Joe Abercrombie (3)
  • IN: Half A King (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Better gear Than good sense A traveller cannot carry
    FROM: Havamal, the speech of the High One, (None), Poem, Scandinavia
  • IN: Half the World (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cattle die, Kindred die, Every man is mortal: But I know one thing That never dies, The glory of the great deed.
    FROM: Hamaval, (None), Poem, Norwegian
  • IN: Half A War (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The man who stands at a strange threshold Should be cautious before he cross it, Glance this way and that: Who knows beforehand what foes may sit Awaiting him in the hall?
    FROM: Hávamál, the Speech of the High One, (None), NULL, Old Norse
• Boris Akunin (1)
  • IN: The Diamond Chariot (2002) Historical mystery , NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The first syllable which has a certain connection with the East
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• K. M. Grant (1)
  • IN: Blood Red Horse (2004) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.
    FROM: Arab Proverb, (None), Proverb, Arab
• Susan Wittig Albert (1)
  • IN: Widow's Tears (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Flo-rig'-ra-phy n. The language ormsymbolism of flowering plants, as expressed in historical literature
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Nelly Alard (1)
  • IN: Couple Mechanics (2016) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Couple, in mechanics, pair of equal parallel forces that are opposite in direction.The only effect of a couple is to produce or prevent the turning of a body
    FROM: Encyclopaedia Brittanica online, (1994), Definition, NULL
• Lena Andersson (2)
  • IN: Willfull Disregard (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If a person ... unlawfully takes and uses or otherwise appropriates something, a sentence... shall be imposed for unlawful dispossesion. The same shall apply to a person who, without any appropriation, by fitting or breaking a lock by other means unlawfully disturbs another's possession or by violence or threat of violence prevents another from exercising his right to retain or take soemthing.
    FROM: Swedish Penal Code: Chapter 8, Section 8, (1962), Law, Sweden
  • IN: Willful Disregard (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If a person... unlawfully takes and uses or otherwise appropriates something, a sentence... shall be imposed for unlawful dispossession. The same shall apply to a person who, without any appropriation, by fitting or breaking a lock of by other means unlawfully disturbs another's possession or by violence or threat of violence prevents another from exercising his rights to retain or take something.
    FROM: Swedish Penal Code: Chapter 8, Section 8, (1962), Legal Document, Sweden
• Lili Anolik (1)
  • IN: Dark Rooms (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "The trouble with innocence," Mrs Gansevoort went on, endeavoring to make a fine point, while reaching with her fingertips to touch a prospective blossom, "is that it provides its own sole protection against the depredations of nature; and nature -- God, for that matter, the grand texts notwithstanding -- has never shown much liking for it. Nature favors the bright eye! the sharp tooth! the cunning few! Nature is a tyrant queen. Make a mistake with her, and she cuts off your head."
    FROM: Incognito, Lulu, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Ace Atkins (5)
  • IN: The Lost Ones (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you're on the march, act the way you would if sneaking up on a deer. See the enemy first.
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No.3, (1759), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Broken Places (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Don't ever take a chance if you don't have to
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No.5, (1759), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Forsaken (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If somebody's trailing you, make a circle, come back onto yout own tracks and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No.17, (1759), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Innocents (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout twenty yards ahead, twenty yards on each flank, and twenty yards on the rear so the main body can't be surprised and wiped out.
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No.12, (1759), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Fallen (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every night you'll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force.
    FROM: Rogers' Rangers Standing Order No. 13 according to Kenneth Roberts's Northwest Passage, (1937), NULL, US
• Julianna Baggott (1)
  • IN: Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "What happened to your mother then?" Daisy asked him "She aired her heart,"Weldon said. It turned and consumed her." "And finally she was happy," Daisy said.
    FROM: Harriet Wolf's Brutal Angels, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Kait Ballenger (1)
  • IN: Twilight Hunter (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Skinwalker [skin-waw-ker] (n.) -1. A being capable of assuming the identity of an animal 2. God of Norse Mythology 3. Shape-shifter
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Colin Bateman (1)
  • IN: Paper Cuts (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno Just to watch him die Rob Cullen bought curly kale in Tesco's Just to watch it wither
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jonathan L. Howard (1)
  • IN: Katya's World (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am Leviathan, I come to you in blood And lie in shadows. My heart is a sun, And my nerves sing with lightning. I have come to kill you. All of you. Each and every one. Every man, And every woman, And every child. As you huddle in families, Or hide alone. I shall not let any of you live. For I am Leviathan. I come to you in blood And sleep in shadows. My heart is a sun, And my mind... My mind...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Chloe Jacobs (1)
  • IN: Greta and the Goblin King (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Mylena's curse will only be broken once the evil that the disgusting human sent here is purged from our world. If we have to align ourselves with that very evil in order to accomplish this, then so be it.
    FROM: the Goblin King of the Western Counties of Mylena, (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Sophie Jordan (1)
  • IN: Vanish (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The heart that truly loves never forgets.
    FROM: Proverbs, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Quan Barry (1)
  • IN: She Weeps Each Time You're Born (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And then She saw them - burn! burn! and simply the water was made as glass. And she is the way when there is no way. She weeps each time you're born.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Max Barry (1)
  • IN: Lexicon (2013) Novel, Science Fiction , Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Linwood Barclay (2)
  • IN: Broken Promise (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I hate this town.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Far from True (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: They ain't seen nothing yet.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Anne Clinard Barnhill (1)
  • IN: At the Mercy of the Queen (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: thy sweet love remembered
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ishmael Beah (1)
  • IN: Radiance of Tomorrow (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It's the end, or maybe the beginning, of another story. Every story begins and ends with a woman, a mother, a grandmother, a girl, a child. Every story is a birth...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Stephen Baxter (4)
  • IN: Proxima (2013) Fiction, Science , British
    EPIGRAPH: In the hearts of a hundred billion worlds- Across a trillion dying realities in a lethal multiverse- In the chthonic silence- Minds diffuse and antique dreamed the Dream of End Time.
    FROM: NULL, (2013), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Ultima (2014) Fiction, Science, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the hearts of a hundred billion worlds- Across a trillion dying realities in a lethal multiverse- In the chthonic silence- There was satisfaction. The network of mind continued to push out into space, from the older stars, the burned-out worlds, to the young out across the galaxy. Pushed deep in time too, twisting the fate of countless trillions of lives. But time was short, and ever shorter. In the Dream of the End Time, there was a note of urgency.
    FROM: NULL, (2014), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Weaver (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As mapped by myself; in which the long warp threads are the history of the whole world; and the wefts which run from selvedge to selvedge are distortions of that history, deflected by a Weaver unknown; be he human, divine or satanic…
    FROM: Friar geoffrey Cotesford of York, (2008), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Science of Avatar (2012) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “What lab experience do you have?” “I dissected a frog once.”
    FROM: Dr. Augustine, Grace and Jake, Sully in Avatar, (2009), Film, US
• Joseph Monninger (2)
  • IN: Finding Somewhere (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And Allah took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it, and created the horse... Thou shall fly without wings, and conquer without sword. O horse!
    FROM: Bedouin Legend, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Eternal on the Water (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One for sadness, two for mirth, Three for marriage, four for birth Five for laughing, six for crying Seven for sickness, eight for dying. Nine for silver, ten for gold Eleven for a secret that will never be told...
    FROM: Scottish folk saying about seeing crows, (None), Saying, UK
• O Guilin, Peadar (1)
  • IN: The Deserter (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Those who gave counsel to build the tower [...] drove forth mutitudes of both men and women, to make bricks [...] Let us see whether heaven is made of clay, or of brass, or of iron. When God saw this He did not permit them, but smote them with blindness and confusion of speech, and rendered them as thou seest.
    FROM: Greek Apocalypse of Baruch 3:5-8, (None), Book, Greece
• Carol Berg (2)
  • IN: Dust and Light (2014) Fiction, Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: The blades of winter pierce root and stone, dust and light. Day sky sheened with silver; stars shattered with frost; life burrowed deep. The killing season. A fragile beauty, fraught with danger, hunger, and pain. Stripped branch and barren vine crack and shrivel. My heart yearns for warmth, for companionship, for glory. Yet waking is storm. 'Tis harsh magic to dance on ice.
    FROM: Canticle of the Winter, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: Ash and SIlver (2015) Fiction, Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: The teeth of spring bite sea and stone. Storm and mist shadow the cove. The glade starves. Where is the fire? Where is the heart? Where is the gladness of the season, when danger lurks amid trees yet barren, and in the sea yet cold and dark? Dance, my brother. Spin, my sister. For root and sap, for wave and worm. Call glory to banish grief too long lingered.
    FROM: Canticle of the Spring, (None), Book, NULL
• Robert Jackson Bennett (2)
  • IN: City of Blades (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He said to them: "Life is death and death is life. To shed blood is to behold this holiest of transitions, the interwoven mesh of the world, The flow from shrieking life to rot and ash. For those who wage Her wars, who become Her swords, She will deem you shriven and holiest of holies. And you shall forever reside beside Herin the City of Blades." And he sang "Come across the waters, Children, To whitest shores and quiet pilgrims, Long dark awaits In Voortya's shadow."
    FROM: Excerpt from "Of the Great Mother Voortya Atop the Teeth of the World", CA 556, (2015), Book, NULL
  • IN: City of Stars (2014) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And Olvos said to them: 'Why have you done this, my children? Why is the sky wreathed with smoke? Why have you made war in far places, and shed blood in strange lands?' And they said to Her: 'You blessed us as Your people, and we rejoiced, and were happy. But we found those who were not Your people, and they would not become Your people, and they were wilful and ignorant of You. They would not open their ears to Your songs, or lay Your words upon their tongues. They would not listen. So we dashed them upon the rocks and threw down their houses and shed their blood and scattered them to the winds, and we were right to do so. For we are Your people. We carry Your blessings. We are Yours, and so we are right. Is this not what You said?' And Olvos was silent.
    FROM: Book of the Red Lotus, Part IV, 13.51-13.59, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Matthew Betley (1)
  • IN: Overwatch (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: o.ver.watch 1. The Process of watching from a high position another group of soldiers who are involved in a military activity and giving them support if necessary.
    FROM: Macmillan Dictionary, (2002), Definition, US
• Lauren Beukes (1)
  • IN: Broken Monsters (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I dreamed about a boy with springs for feet so he could jump high. So high I couldn't catch him. But I did catch him. But then he wouldn't get up again. I tried so hard. I got him new feet. I made him something beautiful. More beautiful than you could imagine. But he wouldn't get up. And the door wouldn't open.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Marc Cameron (1)
  • IN: State of Emergency (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Don't give a sword to a boy.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Louise Candlish (1)
  • IN: The disappearance of Emily Marr (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Although every attempt is made to avoid any upset to people's private lives, sometimes, in the interest of justice, it is unavoidable.
    FROM: Ministry of Justice, A Guide to Coroners and Inquests, (None), Book, UK
• Justin Cartwright (1)
  • IN: Lion Heart (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fiction: 1. Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people; 2. something that is invented or untrue. 3. belief or statement which is false, but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so.
    FROM: Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, NULL
• Jan Siegel (1)
  • IN: The Devil's Apprentice (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Here's the house without a door Here's the room without a floor Here's the cat that chased the rat Here's the rat that bit the cat Here's the dog that didn't bark Here's the flame without a spark Here's a candle to light the proud Here's a spindle to spin your shroud Here's a farewell where'er you roam Here's a death knell to ring you home Heres a church and there's the steeple Open the doors and here are the people.
    FROM: Nursery Rhyme, (None), Rhyme, NULL
• Andrew Peters (2)
  • IN: The Glass Forest (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: It's actually genius,' [says a hedge fund manager,] 'they've understood there's a sector of the market for whom nothing but the perceived best will do, and who want something more, the more expensive it is.
    FROM: Guardian, (2011), Article, UK
• Lisa Papademetriou (1)
  • IN: Fury's Fire (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ice begets ice and flame begets flame: Those that go down never rise up again.
    FROM: Sailors' proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Anna Woltz (1)
  • IN: A Hundred Hours of Night (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
    FROM: United States Declaration of Independence, (1776), Legal Document, US
• Lisa Bingham (1)
  • IN: Desperado (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Soft and sweet like a lullaby, She came to me 'neath a summer sky, Filled my life with immeasurable grace, With a gentle smile and a hint of lace. Annabel, oh, Annabel. What I'd give for one more smile, Or to sit and talk to you for a while. Annabel, Annabel, where did you go? Won't you come back home for the winter snow? She taught me how to live and love, Like an angel sent here from above, For a time this girl was mine to hold, 'Til she went in search of a future bold. Annabel, oh, Annabel. What I'd give for one more day, With you by my side for a day of play. Annabel, Annabel the joy you bring. Won't you come back home for the flowers of spring? I know she's in a happier place, With constant sunlight on her face, Someday she'll visit us, this I know, Once she's spread her wings and learned to grow. Annabel, oh, Annabel. Think of me where'er you are, Whether close to home or miles afar. Annabel, Annabel, you're etched on my heart, You'll be there with me through this brand-new start.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Annette Blair (1)
  • IN: Vampire Dragon (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A roman legion, Killian, the dark witch did change into dragons and banish. To the Island of Stars on a plane beyond ours, they did vanish. Wondrous beasts who might well be dead, Wondrous beasts who might well be dead, But for Andra, guardian witch, from whom hope never fled. At the rise of the moons when all went black She had turned the first to a man with mild flak So for this and future spells, her rhyme stayed intact: Shed horns, spines, claws and webbed wings. Shrink scales, spade and tail-- Killian countered with a fiery bolt; Darkwyn writhed as he took the jolt While Andra missed not a beat or a mote: Warrior to beast, now back again. Send this man to the pane he began. Darkwyn twisted to shift from dragon to man, in the steam of the rift And elder stood by to share the gift.
    FROM: Dragons to Men Again, (None), NULL, NULL
• Rosanne Bittner (1)
  • IN: Outlaw Hearts (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What we do today will become tomorrow's memory; and often the past we are now creating returns to haunt us.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Anne Bishop (2)
  • IN: Bridge of Dreams (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Is the sight that matters most the kind that is seen with the eyes or with the heart?
    FROM: Saying In Vision, (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Mary Weber (3)
  • IN: Siren's Song (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For my shield this day I call: strong power... in the glorious company of the holy and risen ones, in the prayers of the fathers, in visions prophetic and commands apostolic, in the annals of witness, in virginal innocence, in the deeds of steadfast men.
    FROM: Saint Patrick's Breastplate, (2016), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Siren's Fury (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Around me I gather these forces to save my soul and my body from dark powers that assail me: against false prophesyings, against pagan devisings, against heretical lying and false gods all around me. Against spells cast.
    FROM: Saint Patrick's Breastplate, (2015), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Storm Siren (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For my shield this day I call: Heaven's might, Sun's brightness, Moon's whiteness, Fire's glory, Lightning's swiftness, Wind's wildness, Ocean's depth, Earth's solidity, Rock's immobility.
    FROM: Saint Patrick's Breastplate, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Mayra Montero (1)
  • IN: The Red of his Shadow (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Papa Loko ou se van, pouse-n ale nou se papiyon na pote nouvel bay agoue... (Papa Loko, you are the wind, blow on us, we are butterflies, and we will carry the news to the others...)
    FROM: Old Haitian Slave Song, (None), Song, Haiti
• Carlos Fuentes (3)
  • IN: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Life is worth nothing. Nothin: that's what life is worth.
    FROM: Mexican popular song, (None), Song, Mexico
  • IN: Vlad (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Go to sleep, my girl, here comes the coyote; coming to get you with a great garrote
    FROM: Mexican lullaby, (None), Lullaby, Mexico
• Juan Goytisolo (2)
  • IN: The Garden of Secrets (1997) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The most baeutiful garden is a cupboard filled with books.
    FROM: Tale of A Thousand and One Nights, (1775), Book, Middle East
  • IN: Makbara (1979) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ***[Moroccan alphabet - check photo]
    FROM: Moroccan Proverb, (None), NULL, Morocco
• Maurizio de Giovanni (1)
  • IN: The Crocodile (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Hush-a-bye baby, Oh, I'll give you a star. S Sleep pretty baby, It's the brightest by far. Hush-a-bye, hush-a-bye, Now do you want the world? For the sweet love of God, Got to sleep, darling girl.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Song, NULL
• Leonardo Sciascia (1)
  • IN: Equal Danger (1971) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: O Rousseau!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Holly Chamberlin (2)
  • IN: The Friends We Keep (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's vitally important that men continue to keep secrets from women, and that women continue to keep secrets from men. The entire male/female dynamic relic on misrepresentation and misunderstanding. Why tamper with a good thing?
    FROM: Men, Women, and Secrets: It's All Good, (2007), Book, NULL
  • IN: Back in the Game (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Recent statistics show that fifty percent of marriages in the U.S. will end in divorce.
    FROM: Wake Up and Smell the Dirty Sheets: You Will Be Divorced, (2007), Book, NULL
• Carlo Lucarelli (2)
  • IN: Carte Blanche (1990) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: - The Republic must end well. Even if the government falls, it must take into consideration the fascists who remain behind. Larice, how dependable are the Polizia? - Not very, Duce. - I knew it...
    FROM: Conversation between Benito Mussolini and Settimio Larice, (1945), Speech, Italy
• Primo Levi (1)
  • IN: The Periodic Table (1975) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Ibergekumene tsores iz gut tsu dertseylin. Troubles overcome are good to tell.
    FROM: Yiddish Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• J. M. G. Le Clézio (1)
  • IN: Wandering Star (1992) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Estrella errante Amor pasajero Sigue tu camino Por mares y tierras Quebra tus cadenas (Wandering star Transitory love Follows your path Through seas and lands It breaks your chains)
    FROM: Peruvian song, (None), Song, Peru
• Jean Baudrillard (2)
  • IN: V: Fragments (1995) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: How can you jump over your own shadow When you don't have one any more?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Cool Memories II (1990) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Each of them was born None of them were killed Everybody will be dead
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Malcolm Bowie (1)
  • IN: Proust Among the Stars (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Are we too not a cosmic system, and one we know better, or at least ought to know better, than we do the heavenly firmament?
    FROM: Notebooks, (None), Book, NULL
• André Malraux (1)
  • IN: Anti-Memoirs (1967) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: The elephant is the wisest of all the animals, the only who remembers his former lives; and he remains motionless for long periods of time, meditating thereon.
    FROM: Buddhist Text, (None), Book, NULL
• Edmond Jabes (1)
  • IN: The book of Questions: Vol II (1991) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: ...This dream: a dreadful smothering of the soul, then a lofty idea of death, then an ordinary note pad where the day butts against the night.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Liu T'ieh-Yun (1)
  • IN: The Travels of Lao Ts'an (1952) Non-Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The land does not hold back the water; every year comes disaster; The wind beats up the waves; everywhere is danger.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Luo Guanzhong (1)
  • IN: Three Kingdoms (1350) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: On and on the Great River rolls, racing east. Of proud and gallant heroes its white-tops leave no trace, As right and wrong, pride and fall turn all at once unreal. Yet ever the green hills stay To blaze in the west-wanting day. Fishers and woodsmen comb the river isles. White-crowned, they've seen enough of spring and autumn To make good company over the wine jar, Where many a famed event Provides their merriment.
    FROM: Ershiwu shi tanci, (None), Poem, China
• Kresley Cole Ione, Larissa Showalter, Gena (2)
  • IN: Blood Red Kiss (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: No one possesses me, except in their fantasies. I'll kill you as easily as kiss you.
    FROM: Myst the Coveted, Considered the World's Most Beautiful Valkyrie, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Larry Bonds (1)
  • IN: Red Dragon Rising: Blood of War (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Term " Global Warming" is as misleading as it is inaccurate. True, the overall temperature of the earth as measured by annual average readings will rise. But the averages tell us next to nothing. A shortening of a rainy season by two weeks in a given area might be reflected as an increase in the average annual temperature of only a third of a degree. But the impack on the water supply -- and thus the growing season would be considerably higher. Paradoxically, rapid climate change may bring much lower temperatures in many places. It should noted that some changes may well benefit people in the affected areas, at least temporarily, by extending growing seasons, negating weather extremes, or having some other unpredictable effect. Unfortunately, the sensationalistic term, combined with the slow evolution of the effects prior to the crisis point, will make it hard to convince the general population of true danger.
    FROM: International Society of Environmental Scientists report, (None), Report, NULL
• Ki no Tsurayuki (1)
  • IN: The Tosa Diary (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oitaru wo, chichi to se-yo. (That which is old should be treated with the respect due to a father.)
    FROM: Japanese Proverb, (None), Proverb, Japan
• Naiyer Masud (1)
  • IN: Snakecatcher: Stories (2006) Fiction, Anthology, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Ba kuja sar niham keh chun zanjiir Har dare halqa-e dare digar-ast (Hide - but where? Each door I close opens another.)
    FROM: found in a ghazal, (None), NULL, NULL
• Vladimir Nabokov (1)
  • IN: Invitation to a Beheading (1959) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Comme un fou se croit dieu nous nous croyons mortels.
    FROM: Delaland: Discours sur les ombres, (1959), Fictional, NULL
• Pearl S. Buck (1)
  • IN: The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They Way that can be mapped is not the Eternal Way. The Name that can be named is not the Eternal Name.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Religious Text, China
• Edward Abbey (2)
  • IN: The Monkey Wrench Gang (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... a lunatic living about 1779, who in a fit of rage smashed up two frames belonging to a Leicestershire "stockinger."
    FROM: The Oxford Universal Dictionary, (1944), Definition, UK
• Jessica Brockmole (1)
  • IN: Letters from the Skye (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My breath, my light, the one my heart flies toward
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Marion Zimmer Bradley (2)
  • IN: The Fall of Atlantis (1983) Fiction, Speculative Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This is the story of one such stone, dropped into the pool of a world which was drowned long before the Pharaohs of Egypt piled one stone upon another
    FROM: The Teachings of Rajasta the Mage, (1983), Fictional, NULL
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1)
  • IN: Before we Visit the Goddess (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yatra naaryasto poojyantay, ramantay tatra devata. (Where women are honored, there the gods are pleased.)
    FROM: Manusmriti 3/56, 100 CE, (100), NULL, India
• Cory and Stross, Charles Doctorov (1)
  • IN: The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) Fiction, Science Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cory: For Alice. I renew my vow not to fork any new instances without your permission. Charles: For Feorag. Just because!
    FROM: NULL, (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Emma Donoghue (1)
  • IN: The Wonder (None) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: May there be no frost on your potatoes, nor worms in your cabbage
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Barry Hines (1)
  • IN: A Kestrel for a Knave (1968) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: An Eagle for an Emperor, a Gyrfalcon for a King; a Peregrine for a Prince...
    FROM: The Boke of St Albans, and a Harlan manuscript, (1486), Book, UK
• Fay Weldon (2)
  • IN: A Hard Time to be a Father (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My mother said / I never should / Play with the gypsies...
    FROM: Skipping rhyme, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: A Hard Time to Be a Father (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My Mother said I never should Play with the gypsies In the wood. If I did she would say; You're a naughty little girl To disobey Your hair won't curl Your boots won't shine You're a naughty little girl And you shan't be mine! So we all went out to the wood, to play with the gypsies.
    FROM: Skipping Rhyme, (None), Nursery Rhyme, UK
• Xiaolu Guo (1)
  • IN: A Concise Chinese- English Dictionary for Lovers (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What are you thinking?...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Baldwin (2)
  • IN: The Fire Next Time (1962) Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: Down at the cross where my Saviour died, Down where for cleansing from sin I cried, There to my heart was the blood applied, Singing glory to His name!
    FROM: Hymn, (None), Song, NULL
• Ania Ahlborn (1)
  • IN: The Devil Crept In (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And then the child run into the wood. To find his friend where the devil stood.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• A. X. Ahmad (1)
  • IN: The Care-Taker (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The times are like drawn knives, kings like butchers, Righteousness has fled on wings. The dark night of falsehood prevails, The moon of truth is no longer visible.
    FROM: Guru Granth Sahib, (None), Religious Text, India
• Ava Olafsdottir, Audur (1)
  • IN: Butterflies in November (2013) Fiction, Icelandic
    EPIGRAPH: Where are there towns but no houses, roads but no cars, forests but no trees? Answer: on a map.
    FROM: Riddle on children's breakfast TV, (None), NULL, NULL
• Shauna Singh Baldwin (1)
  • IN: The Selector of Souls (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dil hai chhota sa, chhoti si aasha. (My small heart has a small hope.)
    FROM: Roja, (1992), Song, India
• Mischa Berlinski (1)
  • IN: Peacekeeping (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Degage pa peche. (Getting by isn't a sin.)
    FROM: Creole Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Samuel Bjork (1)
  • IN: I'm Travelling Alone (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children are gone.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Nicholas Blake (1)
  • IN: There's Trouble Brewing (1937) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Dogs begin in jest and end in earnest.
    FROM: Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Adam Creed (2)
  • IN: Death in the Sun (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fui piedra y perdi mi centro y me arrojaron al mar y a fuerza de mucho tiempo mi centro vine a encontrar. (I was a stone and lost my centre and was thrown into the sea and after a very long time I came to find my centre again.)
    FROM: The Alpujarras, (None), Song, Spain
  • IN: Death in The Sun (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 'Fui piedra y perdi mi centro y me arrojaron a1 mar y a fuerza de mucho tiempo mi centro vine a encontrar.' 'I was a stone and lost my centre and was thrown into the sea and after a very long time I came to find my centre again.' (Traditional song)
    FROM: The Alpujarras, (None), Song, NULL
• Blake Crouch (1)
  • IN: Pines (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Despite evidence that human evolution still functions, biologists concede that it's anyone's guess where it will take us from here.
    FROM: Time Magazine, (2009), Magazine, US
• Michelle Diener (1)
  • IN: In A Treacherous Court (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Chiefe Conditions and Qualities in a Courtier: To be well borne and of a good stocke Of the Chief Conditions and Qualityes in a Waytyng Gentylwoman: To be well born and of a good house.
    FROM: The Courtyer of Count Baldessar Castilio divided into foure bookes. Very necessary and profitable for yonge Gentilmen and Gentilwomen abiding in Court, Palaice or Place, done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby., (1561), Book, Italy
• Pete Dexter (1)
  • IN: God's Pocket (1983) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now there was a teacher...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Troy Denning (1)
  • IN: Star Wars: Crucible (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A long time ago, in a galaxy far away...
    FROM: Star Wars, (1977), Film, US
• Anders De La Motte (3)
  • IN: Bubble (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Bubble [bLbel] A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body A small, hollow, floating bead or globe Anything that is more spacious than real; a false show A cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation A person deceived by an empty project; a gull A small spherical cavity in a solid material To cheat, to delude (verb) A (usually temporary) state of existence, in which what you see, touch, haer, feel, and smell are under close control either by those around you or a system When an electronic device or person is remotely under surveillance (bubbled) A fantasy/dream that is so far-fetched it couldn't ever be true
    FROM: www.brainyquote.com www.urbandictionary.com www.wiktionary.com, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Buzz (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Buzz To leave, to get away from your current situation Something that creates excitement, hype or thrill! A rush or feeling of energy, excitement, stimulation or slight intoxication The verb is used when posting something (mainly on Google buzz) To clip, to cut, to shave, to remove, to mow Amethod of obtaining immediate attention Being overly and unnecessariy aggressive A continuous noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of a general conversation in low tone A whister ; a rumour or report spread secretly or cautiously Making a call
    FROM: www.wikitionary.org www.dictionary.com www.urbandictionary.com, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Game (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for their own amusement or for that of spectators.an amusement or pastime A state of being willing to do something Evasive, trifling, or manipulative behaviour An animal hunted for food or sport A calculated strategy or approach; a scheme A distraction or diversion Having or showing skill or courage An activity for recreation
    FROM: www.dictionary.com, (1995), Definition, NULL
• Alex Grecian (2)
  • IN: The Devil's Workshop (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Karstphanomen | kärst 'fän • o • men | noun 1. A geological phenomenon of underground limestone formations that have selectively eroded and are consequently riddled with fissures, sinkholes, and cavities. 2. A secret society made up of prominent London citizens who believed that criminal punishment should more directly match the actions of the criminals themselves. The society operated throughout the Victorian era, but is thought to have disbanded by the early twentieth century.
    FROM: Fulton’s Guide to Unfamiliar Words, (1923), Book, NULL
  • IN: The Black Country (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Rawhead and Bloody Bones Steals naughty children from their homes, Takes them to his dirty den, And they are never seen again.
    FROM: Black Country children’s rhyme, (None), Song, UK
• Tim Dorsey (1)
  • IN: Gator A-GO-GO (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life is short. It’s also pretty wide.
    FROM: Spanish Proverb, (None), Proverb, Spain
• Connie Willis (3)
  • IN: Crosstalk (2016) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Listen up.
    FROM: Ghost Town, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Passage (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Shut up, shut up, I am working Cape Race.”
    FROM: Wireless message from the Titanic, cutting off an ice warning the Californian was trying to send, (1912), [NA], UK
  • IN: Remake (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The girl seems to have talent but the boy can do nothing.
    FROM: Vaudeville booking report on Fred Astaire, (1909), NULL, US
• Alison Weir (1)
  • IN: A Dangerous Inheritance (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As circles five by art compressed show but one ring to sight, so trust uniteth faithful minds, with knot of secret might, whose force to break (but greedy Death) no wight possesseth power, As time and sequels well shall prove, my ring can say no more
    FROM: Lines engraved on Katherine Grey's wedding ring, (2012), Fictional, UK
• Alexandra Curry (1)
  • IN: The Courtesan (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Deis dignus vindicibus nodus (A knot worthy of the gods to untie)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• N. J. Cooper (2)
  • IN: Lifeblood (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lifeblood 1. the blood, considered as vital to sustain life. 2. the essential or animating force.
    FROM: Collins English Dictionary, (1979), Definition, NULL
• Paul M.M. Cooper (2)
  • IN: River of Ink (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...and there landed a man who held to a false creed, whose heart rejoiced in bad statesmanship, who was a fire in the forest of good... who was a sun that closed the night lotuses of wisdom, a moon that closed the day lotuses of peace, a man by the name of Magha, an unjust king sprung from the Kalinga line.
    FROM: The Chulavamsa, the Chronicles of Sri Lanka Chapter LXXX - the Sixteen Kings, (1815), Book, Sri Lanka
• Jackie Copleton (2)
  • IN: A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The voice of the waves That rise before me Is not so loud As my weeping, That I am left behind.
    FROM: Thousand-year-old Japanese poem, (None), Poem, Japan
• Bernard Cornwell (2)
  • IN: Lords of the North (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...Com on wanre niht scridan sceadugenga (From out of the wan night slights the shadow walker)
    FROM: Beowulf, (1815), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Pale Horseman (2005) Historical Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ac her forþ berað; fugelas singað, gylleð græghama. For here starts war, carrion birds sing, and gray wolves howl.
    FROM: The Fight at Finnsburh, (1705), NULL, UK
• Michael Cordy (2)
  • IN: The Colour Of Death (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Synergy (Origin - Greek sunergos = working together) Coopeartion of two or more things to produce a combined effet that is greater than the sum of their separate effects.
    FROM: Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, NULL
• Diana Wagman (1)
  • IN: The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We strongly oppose keeping wild animals as pets. This principle applies to both native and nonnative species, whether caught in the wild or bred in captivity.
    FROM: The Humane Society of the United States, (1954), NULL, US
• Robert Ferrigno (1)
  • IN: Prayers for the assassin (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To those who thirst and hold fast to the dream of water. The falling camel attracts many knives.
    FROM: Ancient Arabic Saying, (None), Saying, Arab
• Pete Hamill (1)
  • IN: Snow in August (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A Jew can’t live without miracles.
    FROM: Yiddish Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Ken Bruen (3)
  • IN: Cross (2007) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: A cross is only agony if you are aware of it.
    FROM: Irish Saying, (None), Saying, Ireland
  • IN: The Emerald Lie (2016) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Lance Armstrong: "Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my balls six hours a day. What are you on?" "Grammar!"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Lawrence Block (5)
  • IN: A Long Line of Dead Men (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lament for the Makers Look at the mourners; Bloody great hypocrites! Isn't it grand, boys, to be bloody well dead? Let's not have a sniffle Let's have a bloody good cry! And always remember the longer you live The sooner you'll bloody well die!
    FROM: An Irish Lullaby, (None), Song, Ireland
  • IN: A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: baby, baby, naughty baby Hush, you squalling thing, I say Peace this moment, peace, or maybe Bonaparte will pass this way Baby, baby, he’s a giant Tall and black as Monmouth steeple And he breakfasts, dines and suppers Every day on naughty people Baby, baby, if he hears you As he gallops past the house Limb from limb at once he’ll tear you Just as pussy tears a mouse And he’ll beat you, beat you, beat you And he’ll beat you all to pap And he’ll eat you, eat you, eat you Every morsel snap snap snap!
    FROM: English Lullaby, (None), Song, UK
  • IN: The Devil Knows You’re Dead (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May you be in heaven an hour before The Devil knows you’re dead.
    FROM: Irish Blessing, (None), NULL, Ireland
  • IN: A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As the governor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina, "It's a long time between drinks."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Gilbert Sorrentino (1)
  • IN: Aberration of Starlight (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: aberration of starlight… The true path of light from a star to an observer is along the straight line from the star to the observer; but, because of the component of the observer’s velocity in a direction perpendicular to the direction to the star, the light appears to be traveling along a path at an angle to the true direction to the star.
    FROM: The New Columbia Encyclopedia, (None), NULL, NULL
• Dorothy Sayers (1)
  • IN: Strong Poison (1930) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “Where gat ye your dinner, Lord Rendal, my son? Where gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?” “- O I dined with my sweetheart, Mother; make my bed soon, For I’m sick to the heart and I fain wad lie down.” “O that was strong poison, Lord Rendal, my son, O that was strong poison, my handsome young man,” “- O yes, I am poisoned, Mother; make my bed soon, For I’m sick to the heart, and I fain wad lie down.”
    FROM: Old Ballad (Lord Randal), (1650), Ballad, UK
• Michael Crichton (10)
  • IN: Eaters of the Dead (1976) Fiction, Suspense, Speculative fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Evil is of old date.
    FROM: Arab Proverb, (None), Proverb, Middle East
  • IN: The Lost World (1995) Science Fiction, Techno-thriller, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.
    FROM: Ian Malcolm, (1995), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Rising Sun (1992) Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Business is war.
    FROM: Japanese Motto, (None), Saying, Japan
  • IN: Binary (1972) Thriller, Suspense, Speculative fiction, Techno-thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: BINARY: any system composed of two interacting elements. As in binary stars, binary numbers, binary gases, etc.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Great Train Robbery (1975) Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Satan is glad - when I am bad, And hopes that I - with him shall lie In fire and chains - and dreadful pains
    FROM: Victorian child's poem, 1856, (1856), Poem, UK
  • IN: Disclosure (1994) Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer: (r) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin or (a) to limit, segregate, classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
    FROM: Title VA Civil Rights Act of 1964, (1964), Legal Document, US
  • IN: Timeline (1999) Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I'm not interested in the future. I'm interested in the future of the future.
    FROM: Robert Doniger, (1996), Fictional, NULL
• Jonathan Coe (2)
  • IN: Expo 58 (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You know, I'm half inclined to believe that there's some rational explanation to all this.
    FROM: The Lady Vanishes, (1938), Film, UK
  • IN: The Dwarves of Death (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nuair chi mi eun a' falhb air sgiath, Bu mhiann leam bhith 'na chuideachd: Gu'n deanainn cùrs' air tir mo rùin, Far bheil an sluagh ri fuireach.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Teju Cole (2)
  • IN: Every day is for the thief (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ojo gbogbo ni t'ole, ojo kan ni t'olohun. Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner.
    FROM: Yoruba proverb, (None), Proverb, Nigeria
  • IN: Open City (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Death is perfection of the eye
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Marita Conlon-McKenna (1)
  • IN: The Rose Garden (2013) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: To be happy for an hour, have a glass of wine. To be happy for a day, read a book. To be happy for a week, take a wife. To be happy for ever, make a garden.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Adam Christopher (4)
  • IN: Hanging Wire (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The great scale upon which Nature is operating should be a solemn admonition... at such momentous periods when Nature appears, in spasmodic fury, [to] no longer tolerate the moral turpitde of man.
    FROM: Pittsburgh Gazette, (1811), Article, US
  • IN: Hang WIre (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “The great scale upon which Nature is operating should be a solemn admonition… at such momentous periods when Nature appears, in spasmodic fury, [to] no longer tolerate the moral turpitude of man.”
    FROM: Pittsburgh Gazette, (1811), Article, US
• Elizabeth J. Church (1)
  • IN: The Atomic Weight Of Love (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Los Alamos is in a restricted airspace reservation covered by an Executive order, dated May 23, 1950. This airspace cannot be penetrated except by authority of the AEC [Atomic Energy Commission]. Historically permission has been refusued except for the chartered [AEC flights of official visitors and project personnel].
    FROM: report of the Hearing before the Subcommittee on Communities of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, (1959), US Congress report, US
• Jeff Crook (1)
  • IN: Conundrum (2001) Fiction, Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Although the events described in this report are true, the dialogue has been slowed to protect the sanity of the reader.
    FROM: The Literary Treasures and Racial Heritage Guild of Mount Nevermind, (2001), Fictional, NULL
• Joyce Oates (1)
  • IN: The Gravedigger’s Daughter (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In animal life the weak are quickly disposed of
    FROM: NULL, (2007), Fictional, NULL
• George Pelecanos (3)
  • IN: Hell to Pay (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Don’t Look down On a man . . . Unless you gonna Pick him up.
    FROM: Written on a mural outside Taylor’s Funeral Home, on the corner of Randolph Place and North Capitol Street, NW, Washington, D.C., (None), Inscription, US
  • IN: The Double (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now some men like the fishin' and some men like the fowlin' And some men like to hear a cannonball a roarin'.
    FROM: Whiskey in the Jar' (traditional), (None), NULL, NULL
• Laura Lippman (3)
  • IN: The Sugar House (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Never get caught with a dead girl or a live boy.
    FROM: A political maxim of unknown origin, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: By a Spider's Thread (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Evil inclination is at first as slender as a spider’s thread, and then strong as a rope.
    FROM: Talmudic Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Laurie King (2)
  • IN: The Birth of a new moon (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O Power, O Wisdom, O Goodness inexplicable; Support me, Teach me, and be my Governor, That never my living be to thee despicable… Grant well that I may my intent fulfill.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Peter Robinson (2)
  • IN: Cold Is the Grave (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: THE WIND IT DOTH BLOW HARD AND THE COLD RAIN DOWN DOTH RAIN AND COLD, COLD IS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY LOVE IS LAIN
    FROM: Traditional Folk Ballad, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: The Tribunal (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since its inception, the Tribunal has become a fully operational legal institution rendering judgements and setting important precedents of international criminal and humanitarian law. Many legal issues now adjudicated by the Tribunal have never actually been adjudicated or have lain dormant since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. The Rules of Procedure and Evidence guarantee that Tribunal proceedings adhere to internationally recognised principles of a fair trial.
    FROM: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia document (2001), (2001), NULL, Yugoslavia
• Jan Burke (1)
  • IN: Hocus (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hocus 1. To play a trick upon; dupe, hoax. 2. To drug (a person), especially for a criminal purpose.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Joseph Wambaugh (1)
  • IN: Echoes in the Darkness (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gothic: a late 18th century and early 19th century style of fiction characterized by historical and picturesque settings, an atmosphere of mystery, gloom, and terror, supernatural or fantastic occurrences, and violent and macabre events.
    FROM: The Random House Dictionary, (1966), Definition, NULL
• Jeffery Deaver (2)
  • IN: Cold Moon (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You can't see me, but I'm always present. Run as fast as you can, but you'll never escape me. Fight me with all your strength, but you'll never defeat me. I kill when I wish, but can never be brought to justice. Who am I? Old Man Time.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Blue Nowhere (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is possible… to commit nearly any crime by computer. You could even kill a person using a computer.
    FROM: a Los Angeles Police Department officer, (None), NULL, US
• Marcia Talley (2)
  • IN: This Enemy Town (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To the men and women who are faithfully serving in enforced silence to secure for America the freedom that is denied to them.
    FROM: Service members Legal Defense Network, Conduct Unbecoming, (2003), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Tomorrow's Vengeance (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Continuing care retirement communities, or CCRCs… offer three types of senior housing in one location, so that older residents can move from one to the other as their need for care increases throughout retirement. These communities allow seniors to stay among friends and near their spouse during the aging process, and for that reason they have grown in popularity over recent decades. The number of older adults living in CCRCs has more than doubled between 1997 and 2007 and now totals 745,000 seniors living in over 1,800 CCRCs. With the boomer generation retiring, we can only expect this number to grow.
    FROM: Testimony of Senator Herb Kohl before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, July 21, 2010., (2010), NULL, US
• Charlie Stella (1)
  • IN: Charlie Opera (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This town needs an enema.
    FROM: The Joker (Batman), (1989), Film, US
• Alan Garner (2)
  • IN: Boneland (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hit hade a hole on pe ende and on ayber syde, And ouergrowen with gresse in glodes aywhere, And al watz holz inwith, nobot an olde caue, Or a creuisse of an olde cragge... (It had a hole on the end and on either side, And overgrown with grass in clumps everywhere, And all was hollow within, nothing but an old cave, Or a crevice of an old crag...)
    FROM: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, (1350), Poem, UK
• Anne Fortier (1)
  • IN: The Lost Sisterhood (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Amazons, mythical race of female warriors. The name was popularly understood as "breastless" (maza, "breast") and the story told that they "pinched out" or "cauterized" the right breast so as not to impede their javelin-throwing... Amazons have been used as evidence for an actual matriarchy in prehistoric times. This has seemed an attractive counter to modern male prejudices, but mistakes the nature of myth.
    FROM: The Oxford Classical Dictionary, (1949), Definition, NULL
• David Gilman (1)
  • IN: Blood Sun (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When the last tree falls, so too will the stars.
    FROM: Mayan Prophecy, (None), NULL, Central America/Mexico
• Cara Black (5)
  • IN: Murder in the Marais (1998) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fate knows no distance.
    FROM: a French saying, (None), Saying, France
  • IN: Murder in the Bastille (2003) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: You are not alive unless you know you are living
    FROM: graffiti on a Paris wall, (None), Inscription, France
  • IN: Murder in Belleville (2000) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: As welcome as a hair in one’s soup.
    FROM: a French saying, (None), Saying, France
  • IN: Murder in the Sentier (2002) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every capitalist has a terrorist in the family.
    FROM: Anarchist interviewed by Jean-Paul Sartre in Libération, a newspaper, (None), Speech, France
  • IN: Murder in Clichy (2005) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: The true heroes stay anonymous . . .
    FROM: overheard in the Paris Métro, (None), Speech, France
• Michael Moorcock (5)
  • IN: The Fortress of the Pearl (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And when Elric had told his three lies to Cymoril, his betrothed, and had set his ambitious cousin Yyrkoon as Regent on the Ruby Throne of Melniboné, and when he had taken leave of Rackhir the Red Archer, he set off into lands unknown, to seek knowledge which he believed would help him rule Melniboné as she had never been ruled before. But Elric had not reckoned with a destiny already determining that he should learn and experience certain things which would have a profound effect upon him. Even before he encountered the blind captain and the Ship Which Sailed the Seas of Fate, he was to find his life, his soul and all his idealism in jeopardy. In Ufych-Sormeer he was delayed over a matter involving a misunderstanding between four unworldly wizards who amiably and inadvertently threatened the destruction of the Young Kingdoms before they had served the Balance's ultimate purpose; and in Filkhar he experienced an affair of the heart which he would never again speak about; he was learning, at some cost, the power and the pain of bearing the Black Sword. But it was in the desert city of Quarzhasaat that he began the adventure which was to help set the course of his weird for years to come. . .
    FROM: The Chronicle of the Black Sword, (1989), Song, UK
  • IN: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1955) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: . . . and leaving his cousin Yyrkoon sitting as regent upon the Ruby Throne of Melnibonи, leaving his cousin Cymoril weeping for him and despairing of his ever returning, Elric sailed from Imrryr, the Dreaming City, and went to seek an unknown goal in the worlds of the Young Kingdoms where Melnibonиans were, at best, disliked.
    FROM: The Chronicle of the Black Sword, (1955), Fictional, UK
  • IN: The Vanishing Tower (1971) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... and then did Elric leave Jharkor in pursuit of a certain sorcerer who had, so Elric claimed, caused him some inconvenience...
    FROM: The Chronicle of the Black Sword, (1955), Fictional, UK
  • IN: A Cure for Cancer (1969) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: HERE on the top of a modern and reputable London store lives a garden of incredible beauty one hundred feet above Kensington High Street — the shopping centre of the Royal Borough of Kensington — The gardens embrace some 1 1/2 acres, and comprise an Old-English Garden, Tudor Courts and flower beds, and a Spanish Garden with Moorish pergolas and a Court of Fountains.
    FROM: Derry & Toms Famous Roof Garden, (None), NULL, UK
  • IN: Breakfast in the Ruins (1972) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Commonwealth immigrants to Britain were 22 per cent down in April. There were 1,991 compared with 2,560 in April last year.
    FROM: THE GUARDIAN, June 25, 1971., (1971), Article, UK
• Joe R. Lansdale (3)
  • IN: Dead in the West (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From ghoulies and ghosties And long-legged beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us.
    FROM: Old Scottish Invocation, (None), NULL, UK
  • IN: Rumble Timble (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Remember what Nietzsche said -- 'Live dangerously.'" "You know what happened to Nietzsche." "What?" "He's dead."
    FROM: Sudden Fear, (1952), Film, US
• Elizabeth Bear (1)
  • IN: Carnival (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: car•ni•val (kдr'n-vl) n. [Italian carnevale, from Old Italian carnelevare: carne, meat (from Latin caro, carn-) + levare, to remove (from Latin levare, to raise).] lit. “farewell to the flesh”
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Jo Walton (1)
  • IN: Ha'penny (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, Please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do, If you haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you!
    FROM: Traditional British children's rhyme, (None), Song, UK
• Jason Starr (1)
  • IN: Ant Man (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The world flatters the elephant and tramples on the ant.
    FROM: Indian Proverb, (None), Proverb, India
• Meghann Foye (1)
  • IN: Meternity (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing compares with the miracle and magic of pregnancy. It's your chance to be involved with life's creative process.
    FROM: Your Pregnancy Week by Week, (None), NULL, NULL
• Linda Fairstein (1)
  • IN: Devil's Bridge (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All detectives might be called investigators, but not all investigators can be called detectives. Investigators need a trail of facts which might eventually lead to a successful conclusion of their inquiry. If there are no investigative leads to pursue, then they are finished. This is where a detective comes in -- a person who can paint a landscape he has never seen from inside a darkened room, which is actually the crime scene. That's the difference between the craft and the art.
    FROM: Scotland Yard, (None), NULL, UK
• Justin Evans (1)
  • IN: The White Devil (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The white devil is worse than the black.
    FROM: English Proverb, (None), Proverb, UK
• Tess Evans (2)
  • IN: The Book of Lost Threads (2010) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Others also there are who perished unknown; their sacrifices is not forgotten, and their names, though lost to us, are written in the Books of God.
    FROM: Inscription from the Shrine in the Scottish War Memorial, (1927), Inscription, UK
  • IN: Book of Lost Threads (2010) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Others also there are who perished unknown; their sacrifice is not forgotten, and their names, though lost ot us, are written in the Books of God.
    FROM: Inscription from the Shrine in the Scottish War Memorial., (1998), Inscription, UK
• Daniel Defoe (2)
  • IN: Colonel Jack (1722) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To attend to the neglected and remember the forgotten.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The True-born Englishman (1701) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Statuimus pacem, et securitatem et concordiam judicum et justiciam inter Anglos et Normannos, Francos et Britanes, Walliæ, et Cornubiæ, Pictos et Scotos, Albaniæ, similiter inter Francos et insulanos provincias et patrias, quæ pertinent ad coronam nostram, et inter omnes nobis subjectos firmiter et inviolabiliter observare.
    FROM: Charta Regis Gulielmi Conquistadores de Pacis Publica, cap. i., (None), Other?, UK
• J. A Konrath (2)
  • IN: Dirty Martini (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: DIRTY MARTINI 2 oz vodka 1 tbsp dry vermouth 2 tbsp olive juice 2 olives Fill a mixer with all ingredients, including garnish. Cover and shake hard 3-4 times. Strain contents into a cocktail glass.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Cherry Bomb (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: CHERRY BOMB 1 oz. vodka 1½ oz. white crème de cacao ¾ oz. grenadine 1 maraschino cherry Shake vodka, crème de cacao, and grenadine with ice. Pour into a rocks glass. Garnish with cherry.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• J. A. Konrath (1)
  • IN: Fuzzy Navel (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: FUZZY NAVEL 1½ oz. peach schnapps 3 oz. orange juice Pour schnapps in a rocks or old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Add orange juice.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• F. Paul Wilson (1)
  • IN: Dydeetown World (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If your sister were a clone, would you want her working in Dydeetown.
    FROM: datastream graffito, (1989), Fictional, NULL
• Jim Butcher (4)
  • IN: Cursors's Fury (2006) Fiction, High fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men plan. Fate laughs.
    FROM: The Writings of Gaius Quartus, First Lord of Alera, (2006), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Princeps’ Fury (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Good riddance, gluttonous whore! Victory Germania!
    FROM: An addendum to the poem, scratched in far cruder letters, (2008), Poem, NULL
  • IN: Furies of Calderon (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The course of history is determined not by battles, by sieges, or usurpations, but by the actions of the individual. The strongest city, the largest army is, at its most basic level, a collection of individuals. Their decisions, their passions, their foolishness, and their dreams shape the years to come. If there is any lesson to be learned from history, it is that all too often the fate of armies, of cities, of entire realms rests upon the actions of one person. In that dire moment of uncertainty, that person's decision, good or bad, right or wrong, big or small, can unwittingly change the world. But history can be quite the slattern. One never knows who that person is, where he might be, or what decision he might make. It is almost enough to make me believe in Destiny.
    FROM: From the writings of Gaius Primus First Lord of Albra, (2004), Fictional, NULL
• Sharyn McCrumb (1)
  • IN: Highland Laddie Gone (1986) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here’s tae us. Wha’s like us-damn few an’ they’re a’ deid.
    FROM: Traditional Scots toast, (None), NULL, UK
• C.J Box (4)
  • IN: Cold Wind (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
    FROM: Age old medical school admonition, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Free Fire (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: YELLOWSTONE ACT, 1872 AN ACT TO SET APART A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND LYING NEAR THE HEADWATERS OF THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER AS A PUBLIC PARK Approved March 1, 1872 (17 Stat. 32) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River . . . is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a publicpark or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people; and all persons who shall locate or settle upon or occupy the same, or any part thereof, except as hereinafter provided,shall be considered trespassers and removed therefrom. (U.S.C., title 16, sec. 21.)
    FROM: NULL, (1872), NULL, US
  • IN: Winterkill (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: winterkill ['win•ter•kil] vt to kill (as a plant or animal) by, or to die as a result of, exposure to winter weather conditions
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Vicious Circle (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: vi.cious cir.cle noun 1. a sequence of reciprocal cause and effect in which two or more elements intensify aand aggravate each other, leading inexorably to a worsening of the situation.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Neal Pollack (1)
  • IN: Never Mind the Pollacks: The Literary Music of Neal Pollack (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I want a job I want a job I want a real job I want a job that I want a job that pays. I want a job I want a job I want a real job One that satisfies My artistic needs.
    FROM: Sid and Nancy, (1986), Film, UK
• Stephen Carter (2)
  • IN: The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mr. Lincoln has four long years of strife before him and as he seems little inclined to change his advisers, his course of action, or his generals, we do not believe that the termination of his second period of government will find him President of the United States.
    FROM: London Gazette, (1864), Article, UK
  • IN: New England White (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why does everybody pick on the economists? They've correctly predicted thirteen of the past five recessions!
    FROM: Familiar campus joke, (None), Speech, NULL
• Warren Fahy (1)
  • IN: Fragment (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Anihinihi ke ola. (Life is in a precarious position.)
    FROM: Ancient Hawaiian saying, (None), Saying, US
• Delia Ephron (1)
  • IN: The Girl with the Mermaid Hair (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They say that dogs know what's coming. All natural disasters, earthquakes, tornadoes, storms-they feel the earth's tremble, sense electricity in the air before tragedy strikes. Senor had those sensors about the Jamieson family. He knew what was coming before anyone, even before those who would cause it.
    FROM: NULL, (2010), Fictional, NULL
• Lucy Ellmann (2)
  • IN: Sweet Desserts (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When sea-turtles manage to meet up, maybe once a year, they fuck for hours, shell clacking against shell on the sand.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Doctors & Nurses (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing: no thing: the non-existent: zero number: a thing or person of no significance or value: a worthless thing: a low condition: a trifle: (in Shakespeare) the vagina.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary Davys (2)
  • IN: Accomplish'd Rake or The Modern Fine Gentleman (1727) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: When conqu'ring Vice triumphant takes the Field, Virtue detbron'd muft to its Pow'r yield; And when good Characters are all at flake, The beft of bad ones is, tb' Accomplish'd Rake.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Accomplished Rake (1727) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: When conqu'ring Vice triumphant takes the Field, Virtue dethron'd must to its Power yield, and when good characters are all at stake, The best of bad ones is, th' Accomplished Rake.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Henry Fielding (1)
  • IN: Amelia (1751) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Felices ter & amplius Luos irrupta tenet Copula.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Tobias Smollett (1)
  • IN: Expedition of Humphry Clinker: Volume 1 (1771) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Materiam rifus invenit ad omnes Occursus hominum -- Ridebat euras, nee non et gaudin vulgi; Interdum et larbrymas fundebat.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Susanna Rowson (1)
  • IN: Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (1791) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Her form was faultless, and her mind Untainted yet by art, Was noble, just, humane and kind: And virtue warm'd her heart. But ah! the cruel spoiler came --
    FROM: NULL, (1791), Author, NULL
• Alex Dryden (2)
  • IN: Death in Siberia (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Trees completely ceased to grow. Grass withered. There were no animals. And no children were born.
    FROM: tale of the Evenki tribe in Arctic Siberia, (None), NULL, Siberia
• Rachel Dunne (1)
  • IN: In the Shadow of the Gods (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Parents wept when they saw what their children had wrought, and they cast the Twins forever from the world so that their stain would be spread no farther.
    FROM: The Tale of the Fall, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Tom Egeland (1)
  • IN: Relic (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: These are the secret words, which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymus Judas Thomas wrote down. Jesus said: He who shall find the interpretation of these words shall not taste of death. He who seeks, let him not cease seeking until he finds; and when he finds he will be troubled, and when he is troubled he will be amazed, and he will reign over the All.
    FROM: Gospel of Thomas, The 'Fifth Gospel', (100), Book, Egypt
• De Vries, Peter (1)
  • IN: Reuben, Reuben (1964) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: --Reuben and Rachel music sheet--
    FROM: The Golden Book of Favorite Songs, (1915), Music Sheet, US
• Kate Atkinson (1)
  • IN: Started Early, Took my Dog (2010) Fiction, Crime, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
    FROM: Traditional, (None), Song, NULL
• David Marlow (1)
  • IN: Yearbook (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, no! It was not the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the beast!
    FROM: King Kong, (1933), Film, US
• Robert Silverberg (4)
  • IN: Hot Sky at Midnight (1994) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O Western wind, when wilt thou blow, That the small rain down can rain? Christ, that my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!
    FROM: Western Wind, (1525), Poem, US
  • IN: Lord of Darkness (1983) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He that is shipped with the Devil must sail with the Devil
    FROM: English proverb, (None), Proverb, UK
  • IN: Thebes of the Hundred Gates (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Flame which came forth backwards, I have not stolen the god’s-offerings. O Bone-breaker who came forth from Heracleopolis, I have not told lies. O Eater of entrails who came forth from the House of Thirty, I have not committed perjury. O You of the darkness who came forth from the darkness, I have not been quarrelsome. O Nefertum who came forth from Memphis, I have done no wrong, I have seen no evil.
    FROM: The Negative Confession from The Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead), (-50), Book, Egypt
  • IN: The Pain Peddlers (1963) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Pain is Gain.
    FROM: Greek Proverb, (None), Proverb, Greece
• Peter Ho Davies (1)
  • IN: The Welsh Girl (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: welsh, v. also welch [Of obscure origin] 1. trans. To swindle (a person) out of money laid as a bet. 2. intr. Const. on. To fail to carry out one's promise to (a person); to fail to keep (an obligation)
    FROM: Oxford English Dictionary, (1928), Definition, UK
• Thomas Hawkins (1)
  • IN: The Last Confession (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All you that in the condemned hold do lie, Prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die
    FROM: Words called beneath Newgate Prison on the eve of a hanging, (1605), Speech, NULL
• Peter Høeg (1)
  • IN: The Elephant Keeper's Children (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In case you wish to befriend an elephant keeper, make certain to have room for the elephant.
    FROM: Old Indian saying, (None), Saying, India
• Gill Hornby (1)
  • IN: The Hive (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Una apis, nulla apis (One bee is no bee)
    FROM: Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Robert McCammon (1)
  • IN: The Wolf's Hour (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And then the clouds were coming after him, about to engulf him. He ran, but he couldn't run fast enough. Faster. Faster. The storm roaring on his heels. Faster. His heart, pounding. A banshee scream in his ears. Faster….
    FROM: NULL, (1989), Fictional, NULL
• Christopher Fowler (1)
  • IN: Disturbia (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice ('If you seek a monument, look around')
    FROM: Wren's inscription for St Paul's, (1723), NULL, UK
• Kate and Grubb, Jeff Novak (1)
  • IN: Tymora's luck (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ye wouldn't appreciate the poetry of the tale, or the subplots of the opera, would ye? I'll cut to the heart of the matter.
    FROM: Elminster to Alias, Dungeons and Dragons, (1988), Fictional, US
• Paul Finch (1)
  • IN: Dark North (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My son, When I am gone you will inherit nothing but my bad name, this fur and this sword. Do not underestimate their power. In particular, do not underestimate this sword, for it is the embodiment of our strength. Wield it, and those who come against you will fall like stalks of grass. Do not think this an evil thing, for you will be lord and protector of many lands. While countless will die by your sword, countless others will live by it. God rules this world and His people thrive, not because He is good but because He is strong. Christians once died like cattle, men, women and children hunted down and put to death in torturous ways. They only came to safety the day they struck back. At the battle of the Milvian Bridge, General Constantine destroyed the pagan horde of the pig Maxentius with blood and iron. This is the only lesson you need learn. The men of the One God rule because they are mightier than those of many gods. Do not be fooled by the wittering of priests and monks. Strength matters. Spare those who oppose you, and they will kill you and your children. This gift of rage I bequeath to you in the form of this sword, which has delivered death to more foes than I can count, and must continue to. Worship God, serve your overlord, and vanquish your enemies — vanquish them utterly. There is no law but your own. God respects those who conquer and triumph in His name. Your enemies are His. Cleanse the world of them.
    FROM: Duke Corneus of Penharrow, Dictated on his death-bed, (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Tim Lebbon (3)
  • IN: Berserk (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Dead men tell no tales.
    FROM: Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: London Eye (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There has been an explosion at the London Eye. Two fatalities are reported, though details are still sketchy. Scotland Yard has issued a brief statement: “There is no indication that this was a terrorist attack.” More soon.
    FROM: BBC News Website, 4:34 p.m. GMT, July 28, 2019, (2019), Article, UK
  • IN: Alien: Out the Shadows (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: YEARLY PROGRESS REPORT: To: Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Science Division (Ref: code 937) Date (unspecified) Transmission (pending) My search continues.
    FROM: NULL, (2013), Fictional, NULL
• Margaret Weis (4)
  • IN: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hear the sage as his song descends like heaven's rain or tears, and washes the years, the dust of the many stories from the High Tale of the Dragonlance. For in ages deep, past memory and word, in the first blush of the world when the three moons rose from the lap of the forest, dragons, terrible and great, made war on this world of Krynn. Yet out of the darkness of dragons, out of our cries for light in the blank face of the black moon soaring, a banked light flared in Solamnia, a knight of truth and of power, who called down the gods themselves and forged the mighty Dragonlance, piercing the soul of dragonkind, driving the shade of their wings from the brightening shores of Krynn. Thus Huma, Knight of Solamnia, Lightbringer, First Lancer, followed his light to the foot of the Khalkist Mountains, to the stone feet of the gods, to the crouched silence of their temple. He called down the Lancemakers, he took on their unspeakable power to crush the unspeakable evil, to thrust the coiling darkness back down the tunnel of the dragon's throat. Paladine, the Great God of Good, shone at the side of Huma, strengthening the lance of his strong right arm, and Huma, ablaze in a thousand moons, banished the Queen of Darkness, banished the swarm of her shrieking hosts back to the senseless kingdom of death, where their curses swooped upon nothing and nothing deep below the brightening land. Thus ended in thunder the Age of Dreams and began the Age of Might, When Istar, kingdom of light and truth, arose in the east, where minarets of white and gold spired to the sun and to the sun's glory, announcing the passing of evil, and Istar, who mothered and cradled the long summers of good, shone like a meteor in the white skies of the just. Yet in the fullness of sunlight the Kingpriest of Istar saw shadows: At night he saw the trees as things with daggers, the streams blackened and thickened under the silent moon. He searched books for the paths of Huma, for scrolls, signs, and spells so that he, too, might summon the gods, might find their aid in his holy aims, might purge the world of sin. Then came the time of dark and death as the gods turned from the world. A mountain of fire crashed like a comet through Istar, the city split like a skull in the flames, mountains burst from once-fertile valleys, seas poured into the graves of mountains, the deserts sighed on abandoned floors of the seas, the highways of Krynn erupted and became the paths of the dead. Thus began the Age of Despair. The roads were tangled. The winds and the sandstorms dwelt in the husks of cities, The plains and mountains became our home. As the old gods lost their power, we called to the blank sky into the cold, dividing gray to the ears of new gods. The sky is calm, silent, unmoving. We have yet to hear their answer.
    FROM: Canticle of the Dragon, (1984), Poem, NULL
  • IN: Dragons of the Fallen Sun (None) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: The day has passed beyond our power. The petals close upon the flower. The light is failing in this hour Of day’s last waning breath. The blackness of the night surrounds The distant souls of stars now found, Far from this world to which we’re bound, Of sorrow, fear and death. Sleep, love; forever sleep. Your soul the night will keep. Embrace the darkness deep. Sleep, love; forever sleep. The gathering darkness takes our souls, Embracing us in chilling folds, Deep in a Mistress’s void that holds Our fate within her hands. Dream, warriors, of the dark above And feel the sweet redemption of The Night’s Consort, and of her love For those within her bands. Sleep, love; forever sleep. Your soul the night will keep. Embrace the darkness deep. Sleep, love; forever sleep. We close our eyes, our minds at rest, Submit our wills to her behest, Our weaknesses to her confessed, And to her will we bend. The strength of silence fills the sky, Its depth beyond both you and I. Into its arms our souls will fly, Where fear and sorrows end. Sleep, love; forever sleep. Your soul the night will keep. Embrace the darkness deep. Sleep, love; forever sleep.
    FROM: Mina's Song, (None), Poem, NULL
  • IN: Dragons of the Winter Night (None) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: From the north came danger, as we knew it would: In the vanguard of winter, a dragon’s dance Unraveled the land, until out of the forest, Out of the plains they came, from the mothering earth, The sky unreckoned before them. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. One from a garden of stone arising, From dwarf—halls, from weather and wisdom, Where the heart and mind tide unquestioned In the untapped vein of the hand. In his fathering arms, the spirit gathered. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. One from a haven of breezes descending, Light in the handling air To the waving meadows, the kender’s country, Where the grain out of smallness arises itself To grow green and golden and green again. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. The next from the plains, the long land’s keeping, Nurtured in distance, horizons of nothing. Bearing a staff she came, and a burden Of mercy and light converged in her hand: Beating the wounds of the world, she came. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. The next from the plains, in the moon’s shadow, Through custom, through ritual, trailing the moon Where her phases, her wax and her wane, controlled The tide of his blood, and his warrior’s hand Ascended through hierarchies of space into light. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. One within absences, known by departures, The dark swordswoman at the heart of fire: Her glories the space between words, The cradlesong recollected in age, Recalled at the edge of awakening and thought. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. One in the heart of honor, formed by the sword, By the centuries’ flight of the kingfisher over the land, By Solamnia ruined and risen, rising again When the heart ascends into duty. As it dances, the sword is forever an heirloom. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. The next in a simple light a brother to darkness, Letting the sword hand try all subtleties, Even the intricate webs of the heart. His thoughts Are pools disrupted in changing wind He cannot see their bottom. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. The next the leader, half—elven, betrayed As the twining blood pulls asunder the land, The forests, the worlds of elves and men. Called into bravery, but fearing for love, And fearing that, called into both, he does nothing. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. The last from the darkness, breathing the night Where the abstract stars hide a nest of words, Where the body endures the wound of numbers, Surrendered to knowledge, until, unable to bless, His blessing falls on the low, the benighted. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. Joined by others they were in the telling: A graceless girl, graced beyond graces; A princess of seeds and saplings, called to the forest; An ancient weaver of accidents; Nor can we say who the story will gather. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story. From the north came danger, as we knew it would: In encampments of winter, the dragon’s sleep Has settled the land, but out of the forest, Out of the plain they come, from the mothering earth, Defining the sky before them. Nine they were, under the three moons, Under the autumn twilight: As the world declined, they arose Into the heart of the story.
    FROM: Song of the Nine Heroes, (None), Poem, NULL
  • IN: Amber and Blood (2008) Fiction, Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.
    FROM: The Five Remembrances of Buddha, (None), NULL, NULL
• Michael Williams (1)
  • IN: Weasel's Luck (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From the Moat House to Warden Swamp The Sign of the Weasel is tunnel on tunnel, enchantment on enchantment. He digs beneath himself, and in digging discovers all roads into nothing. Burrow the dark until darkness unravels, in dark the philosophers dance.
    FROM: The Calantina, IX:IX, (1988), Fictional, NULL
• Douglas Niles (2)
  • IN: Circle at center (2000) Fiction, Speculative Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the perfection of the warrior does the Seventh Circle achieve her ultimate ideal. But perfection is honed to a double edge, for the shiny blade of humankind reflects the specter of apocalypse.
    FROM: From the Tapestry of the Worldweaver, Chronicles of a Circle Called Earth, (2000), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Goddess Worldweaver (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Shout the names of God, Hail the gods of fame; Cry the yell of war, And mute the call of blame. Heed the ancient creed, Scorn the one falls lame, Raise the warrior’s sword, To slay begets the same.
    FROM: From the Tapestry of the Worldweaver, Bloom of Entropy, (2003), Fictional, NULL
• Mary Herbert (1)
  • IN: Flight of the Fallen (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How long, oh gods? will you forget us for ever? how long will you hide your faces from us? How long shall we have perplexity in our minds, and grief in our hearts, day after day? how long shall our enemies triumph over us? Look upon us and answer us, oh gods; and give light to our eyes, lest we sleep in death, lest our enemy say, “I have prevailed over them,” and our foes rejoice that we have fallen.
    FROM: "Cry for the missing city", Songs of lamentation -- based on Psalm 13, verses 1-4 from The new Revised Standard Version of the Bible c. 1989, (1989), Poem, NULL
• Nicola Griffith (1)
  • IN: Stay (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: larva larva (from larva, L. for ghost, or mask) 1. a disembodied spirit, or ghost (obs.) 2. immature insect, such as a caterpillar… in the grub or larval stage the insect is wingless, designed for environments and purposes that are quite different from those of the adult form…
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Nnedi Okorafor (3)
  • IN: Lagoon (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Welcome to Lagos, Nigeria. The city takes its name from the Portuguese word for “lagoon”. The Portuguese first landed on Lagos Island in the year 1472. Apparently, they could not come up with a more creative name. Nor did they think to ask one of the natives for suggestions. And so the world turns, masked by millions of names, guises, and shifting stories. It’s been a beautiful thing to watch. My designs grow complicated.
    FROM: NULL, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Nicole Mones (1)
  • IN: Night in Shanghai (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 一寸光阴一寸金 寸金难买寸光阴 An inch of time is worth an inch of gold An inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time
    FROM: Chinese adage, (None), Proverb, China
• Jesse Ball (1)
  • IN: Samedi the Deafness (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thus Bacon encouraged the Tumult and as the unquiet crowd follow and adhere to him, he listeth them as they come in upon a large paper, writing their names circular-wise, that their Ringleaders might not be found out.
    FROM: British Royal Commission Report, 1676c, (1676), Report, UK
• Denis Johnson (1)
  • IN: Fiskadoro (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: pescador, ra, n. fisherman (-woman), fisgador, ra, n. harpooner.
    FROM: Appleton’s New Cuyas Dictionary, (1966), Definition, NULL
• Joy Williams (1)
  • IN: The Quick & the Dead (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Toward a place where I could not find safety I went.
    FROM: Yaqui Deer Song, (None), Song, US
• Amy Hatvany (2)
  • IN: Safe With Me (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: An invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, despite the time, the place, and despite the circumstances. The thread can be tightened or tangle, but will never be broken.
    FROM: Chinese proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Anthony Gross (1)
  • IN: No Way Back (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If a body is just a body, who will step forward to ask why someone is killed and who killed them? If a body has no name or no history, then who will demand justice?
    FROM: Mother of a victim of Mexico's drug wars, (None), Speech, Mexico
• Jason Gurley (1)
  • IN: Eleanor (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Time is a river, and it flows in a circle.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Carly J. Hallman (2)
  • IN: Year of the Goose (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you're a fatty and you're ready to make a change, come on down to our fat camp today!
    FROM: Chinese radio commerical jingle, (None), Song, China
• Elizabeth Hand (2)
  • IN: Available Dark (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Domine, libera nos a furore normannorum. "Lord, save us from the rage of the Norsemen."
    FROM: Medieval prayer, (None), Prayer, NULL
  • IN: Waking the Moon (1994) Dark fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: If all those young men were like hares on the mountain Then all those pretty maidens would get guns, go a-hunting. If all those young men were like fish in the water Then all those pretty maidens would soon follow after. If all those young men were like rushes a-growing Then all those pretty maidens would get scythes, go a-mowing
    FROM: Maying Song, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Hannaham (1)
  • IN: Delicious Foods (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The worm don't see nothing pretty in the robin's song.
    FROM: Black proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Seth Grahame-Smith (1)
  • IN: The Last American Vampire (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tell you now children -- you're all gonna die. No hand stamp reentry, no refund, no lie.
    FROM: written on a bathroom stall in Disneyland, (1988), NULL, US
• Camilla Grebe (1)
  • IN: The Ice Beneath Her (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: You never know friend from foe, till the ice beneath gives way.
    FROM: Inuit proverb, (None), Proverb, US/Canada
• Ella Griffin (1)
  • IN: The Flower Arrangement (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
    FROM: Chinese proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Kate Griffin (2)
  • IN: The Minority Council (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Is the dust a problem? Yes. Do we have a moral imperative to do something about it? Absolutely. If we act now, will it be of benefit to the majority in the future, greater than the harm it could do at this present time? Well, there's a question worth the asking.
    FROM: Report from the Sub-Chairman of the Minority Council on the Economics of Fairy Dust, (2012), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Stray Souls (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They say that the soul of the city is being ripped apart. I've never had much time for 'them'and the things 'they' say but, for one, I find myself forced to agree. It begins with a rusting, a place where new foundations were laid and which are now turned to orange-brown. Then a cracking, the road beneath your feet splitting through the tarmac is fresh. Then a dripping, the water coming through from the pipes overhead, then a creaking, wood splinters against wood, glass breaks and someone may leave a bin bag behind the pane to keep out the draught but that is all, and it is forgotten, and it withers, and it dies. people don't understand how a city dwindles like a living thing, but that is what it is and, like all things that live, it too can die. And this shaking, this crumbling, this death by little silences falling in busy streets, this hollowness of all things - I am powerless to prevent.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Daisy Goodwin (1)
  • IN: The American Heiress (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The American girl has the advantage of her English sister in that she possesses all that the other lacks.
    FROM: Tilted Americans, (1890), NULL, NULL
• Mike Gayle (1)
  • IN: The Hope Family Calendar (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
    FROM: Turkish proverb, (None), Proverb, Turkey
• Robert Coover (1)
  • IN: Public Burning (1977) Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the sixth time, the mousy little engineer and his wife, waiting in Sing Sing’s death house, had petitioned the highest tribunal…. For the sixth time, a majority of the nine Justices rejected a Rosenberg appeal…. Then, as the clock ticked on toward 11 p.m. Thursday, the hour of death for the spies, Supreme Court Justice William Douglas acted alone. Unexpectedly, the court having recessed for the summer, he granted the stay of execution that the full court had denied. That touched off, within the next 24 hours, one of the most dramatic and novel episodes in all the august annals of the U.S. Supreme Court….
    FROM: “The Last Appeal,” TIME, June 29, 1953, (1953), Article, US
• Lorrie Moore (2)
  • IN: A Gate at the Stairs (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All seats provide equal viewing of the universe.
    FROM: Museum Guide, Hayden Planetarium, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Gate at the Stairs (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All seats provide equal viewing of the universe.
    FROM: Museum Guide, Hayden Planetarium, (None), Other?, US
• Russell Banks (2)
  • IN: Continental Drift (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yun seul dwèt pas capab’ mangé gombo.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Relation of My Imprisonment (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Remember death.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Thomas McGuane (1)
  • IN: Panama (1978) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The best epitaph a man can gain is to have accomplished daring deeds of valor against the enmity of fiends during his lifetime.
    FROM: The Seafarer, (950), Poem, UK
• Robert Crais (9)
  • IN: The Monkey's Raincoat (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That ain't tactics, baby. That's just the beast in me.
    FROM: Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock (the movie), (1957), Film, US
  • IN: The First Rule (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gotta do that right thing Please Please Please Someone be that hard thing For me
    FROM: Deconstructed Child, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: L.A. Requiem (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mama, Mama, can't you see What the Marine Corps has done to me? Made me lean and made me strong Made me where I can do no wrong.
    FROM: USMC marching cadence, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Watchman (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: pike-n.; a long-bodied, predatory fish known for its speed and aggression.
    FROM: Oxford American Dictionary, (2001), Definition, UK
  • IN: Demolition Angel (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To be disrupted: when the human body is blown apart; as by the pressure force of a bomb.
    FROM: Gradwohl’s Legal Medicine, (1954), Book, NULL
  • IN: Taken (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Jimmy Cricket: Hey, where ya goin'? Pinocchio: I'm going to find him!
    FROM: Pinnochio, (1940), Film, US
• John Lescroart (1)
  • IN: The Mercy Rule (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Suffering is a fact of life; suffering is caused by attachment.
    FROM: The First and Second Noble Truths of Buddhism, (None), NULL, India/China
• Joseph Finder (2)
  • IN: Killer Instinct (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the student is ready, the Master appears.
    FROM: Buddhist proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: Extraordinary Powers (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Former KGB agent seeks employment in similar field. Tel: Paris 1-42.50.66.76.
    FROM: classified advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, January 1992, (1992), Advertisement, US
• Gayle Lynds (3)
  • IN: The Book of Spies (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the abstruse world of espionage, it’s not always easy to know when you are in on a secret.
    FROM: Time magazine, January 9, 2006, (2006), Article, US
• Alafair and Clark, Mary Higgins Burke (1)
  • IN: All Dressed in White (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here comes the bride dressed all in light Radiant and lovely she shines in his sight
    FROM: Bridal Chorus, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary Higgins Clark (1)
  • IN: Silent Night (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: St. Christopher, patron of travelers, pray for us, and protect us from evil.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Michael Palmer (3)
  • IN: A Heartbeat Away (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORDER OF PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION 1. Vice President 2. Speaker of the House 3. President Pro Tempore of the Senate 4. Secretary of State 5. Secretary of the Treasury 6. Secretary of Defense 7. Attorney General 8. Secretary of the Interior 9. Secretary of Agriculture 10. Secretary of Commerce 11. Secretary of Labor 12. Secretary of Health and Human Services 13. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 14. Secretary of Transportation 15. Secretary of Energy 16. Secretary of Education 17. Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs 18. Secretary of Homeland Security
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: Flashback (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men and for all time to come, if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.
    FROM: Conclusion of The Oath of Hippocrates, 377 B. C., (-377), NULL, Greece
  • IN: Resistant (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Throughout the course of human history people have endured uncertainties brought on by illness, poverty, disability, and aging. Economists and sociologists take delight in labeling these inevitablities as threats to one's economic security, when in truth they are the price each individual must pay to fund their existence.
    FROM: R Lancaster Hill, 100 Neighbors, Sawyer River Books, (1939), Fictional, NULL
• John Lutz (3)
  • IN: Buyer Beware (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Caveat emptor quia ignorare non debuit quod jus alienum emit. Let the buyer beware because he should not be ignorant of the property that he is buying.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: In for the Kill (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping, Where he hung, the dying Lord.
    FROM: Stabat Mater, (1250), Song, NULL
  • IN: The Night Caller (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In ancient shadows and twilights Where childhood has stayed Great human tragedies are born and heroes made. In the lost childhood of Judas Christ was betrayed.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Danielle Steel (6)
  • IN: Against All Odds (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together, there’s something you must remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you.
    FROM: Pooh's Grand Adventures (The Search for Christopher Robin), (1997), Film, US
  • IN: Betrayal (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In each loss there is a gain, As in every gain there is a loss, And with each ending comes a new beginning.
    FROM: Buddhist proverb, (None), Religious Text, China
  • IN: Rogue (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: rogue: a mischievous person, a scamp, a rascal, an impish or playful young person.
    FROM: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, (1898), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Amazing Grace (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you become whole, everything will come to you.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Religious Text, China
  • IN: Bittersweet (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Never settle for less than your dreams. Somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Honor Thyself (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you become whole, everything will come to you.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Religious Text, China
• Lindsey Lee Johnson (1)
  • IN: The Most Dangerous Place On Earth (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The pot at the end of the rainbow is not money. I know because I have it.
    FROM: woman featured in I Want It All Now! (An NBC News Special Report), (1978), Conversation, US
• Paula Woods (1)
  • IN: Strange Bedfellows (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One lie calls for another and another.
    FROM: Cecilia “Grandmama Cile” Justice (1908-), (2006), Fictional, NULL
• Greg Rucka (2)
  • IN: Private Wars (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The government claims its efforts serve as part of the global campaign against terrorism. Yet in the overwhelming majority of cases, those imprisoned have not been accused or convicted of terrorism or charged with any other violent act. Human Rights Watch has documented the torture of many of those detained in the context of this compaign, including several who that [sic] died as a result of torture . . . including beatings by fist and with truncheons or metal rods, rape and sexual violence, electric shock, use of lit cigarettes or newspapers to burn the detainee, and asphyxiation with plastic bags or gas masks. A doctor who examined the body of a detainee who died in custody in 2002 described burns consistent with immersion in boiling water.
    FROM: Torture World Wide published by Human Rights Watch, (2005), Article, Na
• Diana Gabaldon (1)
  • IN: Outlander (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists. Young girls run away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. International financiers change their names and vanish into the smoke of imported cigars. Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations. Usually.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Nelson DeMille (3)
  • IN: Wild fire (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The FBI investigates terrorism-related matters without regard to race, religion, national origin, or gender.
    FROM: Terrorism in the United States FBI Publications, 1997, (1997), Book, US
  • IN: The Lion's Game (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Death is afraid of him because he has the heart of a lion.
    FROM: Arab Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: Mayday (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: SUCCESS/FOUR FLIGHTS THURSDAY MORNING/ALL AGAINST TWENTY — ONE-MILE WIND/STARTED FROM LEVEL WITH ENGINE POWER ALONE/ AVERAGE SPEED THROUGH AIR THIRTY-ONE MILES/LONGEST FIFTY-NINE SECONDS/INFORM PRESS/HOME CHRISTMAS
    FROM: Telegram to the Rev. Milton Wright, from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17, 1903, (1903), NULL, US
• Lorenzo Carcaterra (1)
  • IN: Sleepers (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let's go say a prayer for a boy who couldn't run as fast as I could.
    FROM: Pat O'Brien to the Dead End Kids in Angels With Dirty Faces., (1938), Film, US
• Rachel Joyce (1)
  • IN: A Snow Garden (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
    FROM: Greek Proverb, (None), Proverb, Greece
• Jessica Francis Kane (1)
  • IN: The Report (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We want to note what we have done, and not done.
    FROM: Preface to The 9/11 Commission Report, (2004), NULL, NULL
• Ben Kane (2)
  • IN: Eagles War (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Quintili Vare, legiones redde!' ('Quinctilius Vaurs, give me back my legions!'
    FROM: Suetonius' record of the Emperor Augustus' reaction to the news of Varus' fate, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Eagles at War (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Quintili Vare, legiones redde!' 'Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!'
    FROM: Suetonius' record of the Emperor Augustus' reaction to the news of Varus' fate, (None), NULL, Italy
• Tania James (1)
  • IN: The Tusk that did the damage (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Colonel Hathi: A Man-cub! [picking up Mowgli with trunk] Oh, this is treason! Sabotage! I'll have no Man-cub in my jungle! Mowgli: It's not your jungle!
    FROM: The Jungle Book, (1967), Film, US
• Kristopher Jansma (1)
  • IN: Why We Came to the City (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What can go wrong will go wrong.
    FROM: Murphy's First Law, (None), NULL, NULL
• Libbie Hawker (7)
  • IN: The Sekhmet Bed (2011) Fiction, History, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So said Amun-Re, Lord of Waset, presider over the Holy House: He made his form like the majesty of her husband, the King Thutmose. He found her as she slept in the beauty of her palace. She awakened at the fragrance of the god, which she smelled in the presence of his majesty. He went to her immediately. He imposed his desire upon her; he caused that she should see him in the form of a god. When he came before her, she rejoiced at the sight of his beauty. His love passed into her limbs, which the fragrance of the god flooded; his fragrance was of the land of Punt.
    FROM: Inscription from Djeser-Djeseru, mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, Fifth King of the Eighteenth Dynasty., (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Crook and Flail (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I was firm upon the throne of Re, I was ennobled until the two periods of years. I came as the One Horus, flaming against my enemies.
    FROM: Inscription from Djeser-Djeseru, mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, fifth king of the Eighteenth Dynasty., (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: House of Rejoicing (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The names of the sacred cattle are: House of Ka s, Mistress of All; Silent One who dwells in her place; She of Chemmis, whom the god ennobled; The Much Beloved, red of hair; She who protects in life, the particolored; She whose name has power in her craft; Storm in the Sky, who holds the god aloft; The Bull, the husband of the cows.
    FROM: The Book of the Dead, Spell 148, (-50), NULL, Egypt
  • IN: Storm in the Sky (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The names of the sacred cattle are: House of Ka s, Mistress of All; Silent One who dwells in her place; She of Chemmis, whom the god ennobled; The Much Beloved, red of hair; She who protects in life, the particolored; She whose name has power in her craft; Storm in the Sky, who holds the god aloft; The Bull, the husband of the cows.
    FROM: The Book of the Dead, Spell 148, (-50), NULL, Egypt
  • IN: The Bull of Min (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O my mother Nut, goddess of the night sky, stretch thyself over me. Place me among the imperishable stars which are in thee, that I may not die.
    FROM: Inscription from the sarcophagus of Hatshepsut, fifth king of the Eighteenth Dynasty, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Eater of Hearts (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The names of the sacred cattle are: House of Ka s, Mistress of All; Silent One who dwells in her place; She of Chemmis, whom the god ennobled; The Much Beloved, red of hair; She who protects in life, the particolored; She whose name has power in her craft; Storm in the Sky, who holds the god aloft;
    FROM: The Book of the Dead, Spell 148, (-50), NULL, Egypt
  • IN: Egyptian Queens (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So said Amun-Re, Lord of Waset, presider over the Holy House: He made his form like the majesty of her husband, the King Thutmose. He found her as she slept in the beauty of her palace. She awakened at the fragrance of the god, which she smelled in the presence of his majesty. He went to her immediately. He imposed his desire upon her; he caused that she should see him in the form of a god. When he came before her, she rejoiced at the sight of his beauty. His love passed into her limbs, which the fragrance of the god flooded; his fragrance was of the land of Punt.
    FROM: Inscription from Djeser-Djeseru, mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, Fifth King of the Eighteenth Dynasty., (None), NULL, NULL
• Milly Johnson (1)
  • IN: The Teashop on the Corner (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Things will always get better. After all, when you’ve hit rock bottom, there’s nowhere to go but up.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Johnson Milly (1)
  • IN: Summer of Magic Moments (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are magical moments in every day. We just have to take the time to see them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• David Morrell (5)
  • IN: Creepers (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: …places you're not supposed to go.
    FROM: -subject of the website infiltration.org, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: The Totem (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: totem, noun: 1. amoung primitive peoples, an animal or natural object considered as being related by blood to a given family or clan and taken as its symbol. 2. an image of this.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Spy Who Came for Christmas (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the Middle Ages, councils debating confidential matters hung a rose from the ceiling and swore not to reveal what they discussed sub rosa, under the rose. This association of a rose with secrecy dates back to a Greek myth in which the god of love gave a rose to the god of silence, bribing him to stay quiet about the sins of the other gods. To this day, the rose remains an emblem of the spy profession.
    FROM: from the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Espionage, (None), Book, UK
  • IN: The League for Night and Fog (1987) fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: New evils require new remedies... new sanctions to defend and vindicate the eternal principles of right and wrong.
    FROM: The Times (London), (1945), Article, UK
• Jonathan Kellerman (1)
  • IN: Silent Partner (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.
    FROM: Yiddish Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Joe Hill (1)
  • IN: Twittering From the Circus of the Dead (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? . . . Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the Web.
    FROM: from twitter.com, (None), [NA], NULL
• Karl Edward Wagner (1)
  • IN: The Year's Best Horror Stories 11 (1983) Fiction, Horror, American
    EPIGRAPH: …whether hoax or conspiracy, the motives as much in conjecture as the means; but we must treat with the realities, despite what we are meant to believe: James Dean has been recognized strolling along North Beverly Glen Boulevard, secure behind beard and sunglasses (need I say it: Porsche) and the certainty of our disbelief.
    FROM: Allard Kent from Drive-Thru Fiction, (1983), Fictional, NULL
• Leonardo Padura (2)
  • IN: Havana Red (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We all wear masks.
    FROM: Batman, (1995), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Heretics (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever has reflected on these four things would have done better not coming into the world: What is above us? What is below us? What came before? What will come after?
    FROM: Rabbinical maxim, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Kevin and Herbert, Brian Anderson (1)
  • IN: Navigators of Dune (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All things begin, and all things end—there are no exceptions. Or, is this a myth?
    FROM: Debating topic, the Mentat School, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Justin Gustainis (2)
  • IN: Those Who Fight Monsters Tales of Occult Detectives (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From ghoulies, and ghosties, and long-leggedity beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord deliver us.
    FROM: Old Scottish prayer, (None), Religious Text, UK
  • IN: Sympathy for the Devil (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you dance with the Devil the Devil don't change. The Devil changes you.
    FROM: 8MM, (1999), Film, US
• Lilith Saintcrow (6)
  • IN: Hunter's Prayer (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thou Who hast given me to fight evil, protect me; keep me from harm. Grant me strength in battle, honor in living, and a swift clean death when my time comes. Cover me with Thy shield, and with my sword may Thy righteousness be brought to earth, to keep Thy children safe. Let me be the defender of the weak and the protector of the innocent, the righter of wrongs and the giver of charity. O my Lord God, do not forsake me when I face Hell’s legions. In Thy name and with Thy blessing, I go forth to cleanse the night.
    FROM: The Hunter’s Prayer, (None), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: Dead Man Rising (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Since before the Awakening, the world has been aware of the existence of psionics. And since the Parapsychic Act was signed into Hegemony law, the psionic Talents have been harnessed to provide valuable service to mankind. Who can imagine a world without Skinlin and sedayeen cooperating to find new cures for every gene-morphing virus, creating new techniques for alteration and augmentation of the human body? Who can imagine a time when the Magi did not probe the laws of magick and alternate realities, or when Ceremonials and Shamans didn't minister to the needs of believers and track criminals, not to mention provide protection for houses and corporations? Who can imagine a world without psions? The Necromance's place within this continuum is assured: The Necromance treads in that realm of mystery called Death. At hospital bedsides and in courtrooms, Necromances ease the passing of their fellow humans or provide testimony for the last wishes of the dead. An accredited Necromance's work touches the very mundane world of finance, wills, and bequests at the same time that they peer into the dry land of Death and return with absolute proof that there is an afterlife. Necromances also work in the Criminal Justice arm of the Hegemony, tracking criminals and murderers. A Necromance requires not only the talent for entering the realm of Death, but also the training and sorcerous Will to come back out of Death. This is why accreditation of Necromances is so expensive, and so harrowing for even the Academy-trained psionics whose Talent lies in Necromance. On the flap opposite you will see several careers where an accredited Necromance can make a difference…
    FROM: Brochure, What Can Death Do For You?, printed by the Amadeus Hegemony Academy of Psionic Arts, (2006), Article, NULL
  • IN: The Devil's Right Hand (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The last of the theories is the most intriguing: what if the Awakening itself was prompted by a collective evolution of the human race? Psionic talent before the Awakening was notoriously unreliable. The Parapsychic Act, by codifying and making it possible to train psionic ability, cannot alone account for the flowering of Talent and magickal ability just prior to its signing into law—no matter how loudly apologists for Adrien Ferrimen cry. A corollary to the theory of collective evolution is the persistent notion that another intelligence was responsible. The old saw about demonic meddling with the human genetic code has surfaced in this debate so many times as to be a cliché. But as any Magi will tell you, demonkind’s fascination with humans cannot be explained unless they somehow had a hand in our evolution, as they themselves claim. For if there is one law in dealing with demons, it is their possessive nature. A demon will destroy a beloved object rather than allow its escape; in this they are like humanity. A second law is just as important in dealing with demons: as with loa or etrigandi, their idea of truth is not at all the human legal definition. A demon’s idea of a truth might be whatever serves the purpose of a moment or achieves a particular end. This leads to the popular joke that lawyers make good Magi, which this author can believe. In fact, one might say that in jealousy and falsity either we learned from demonkind, or they caught these tendencies like a sickness from us—and the latter option is not at all likely, given how much older a race they are…
    FROM: Theory And Demonology: A Magi Primer, (2007), Book, NULL
• Steven James (3)
  • IN: Placebo (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
    FROM: The Matrix, (1999), Film, US
  • IN: The King (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dun vivimus viamus
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, Italy
  • IN: Every Crooked Path (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Society prepares the crime: the criminal commits it.
    FROM: Found in a fortune cookie next to two smiley faces, (None), Other?, NULL
• S. P. Hozy (2)
  • IN: The Scarlet Macaw (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
  • IN: A Cold Season in Shanghai (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cyprus to be evergreens.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Kameron Hurley (3)
  • IN: The Mirror Empire (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We take our shadows with us.
    FROM: Dhai saying, (None), saying, NULL
  • IN: The Stars Are Legion (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.
    FROM: Lord Mokshi, Annals of the Legion, (2017), Fictional, NULL
• Isaac Marion (3)
  • IN: Warm Bodies (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...
    FROM: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet II, lines 147, 153, 154, 278, 279, (-1800), Poem, Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq/Turkey/Syria)
  • IN: The Burning World (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: SCHULZ: You must speak. BARBER: I can't. SCHULZ: It is our only hope.
    FROM: The Great Dictator, (1940), Film, US
• Richelle Mead (2)
  • IN: The Immortal Crown (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hugin and Munin fly every day over the wide world; I fear for Hugin that he will not come back, yet I tremble more for Munin.
    FROM: The Poetic Edda (trans. Carolyne Larrington), (1996), Book, Iceland
• Macneal. Susan Elia (1)
  • IN: Princess Elizabeth's Spy (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cryptogram: Message written in a cipher or in some other cryptic form which requires a key (qv) for its meaning to be discovered.
    FROM: A Lexicon of Cryptography, (None), Book, NULL
• Richard Madeley (1)
  • IN: The Way You Look Tonight (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And after all her furious sound The stillness of her face The quiet of her sleep, tonight
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Karen Maitland (2)
  • IN: The Raven's Head (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One for sorrow Two for mirth Three for a funeral Four for a birth Five for heaven Six for hell The seventh takes your soul for the Devil to sell.
    FROM: traditional rhyme for counting magpies, known as witch birds, (None), Rhyme, NULL
• Brendan DuBois (1)
  • IN: Final Winter (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We have met the enemy and he is us!
    FROM: Pogo, (1970), Book, US
• Robert Parker (1)
  • IN: Cold Service (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ed Gorman (1)
  • IN: Bad Moon Rising (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000.
    FROM: Wavy Gravy at Woodstock, (1969), NULL, US
• Stephen Coonts (2)
  • IN: Saucer: Savage Planet (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On this small planet Orbiting a nondescript star, On the edge of a humongous galaxy Wheeling endlessly in the infinite void, The river of life flows on and on … Let it flow.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Liberty's Last Stand (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The oath to be taken by the president on first entering office is specified in Article II, Section 1, of the United States Constitution. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
    FROM: Article II, Section 1, of the United States Constitution., (1787), NULL, US
• John Adams (1)
  • IN: The Living Dead (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You know Macumba? Voodoo. My granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us, 'When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.'
    FROM: Ken Foree as "Peter" in George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, (1978), Film, US
• Geoff Ryman (2)
  • IN: Lust Or No Harm Done (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the bend God created the hen and the education. And the education was without founder, and void; and death was upon the falsehood of the demand. And the sport of God moved upon the falsehood of the wealth. And God said, Let there be limit; and there was limit.
    FROM: A text produced from the Book of Genesis using a method invented by Jean Lescure in which each noun is replaced with the seventh noun following it in a dictionary., (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The King's Last Song (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: As wealthy as Cambodia
    FROM: Traditional Chinese Saying, (None), Saying, China
• Isaac and Silverberg, Robert Asimov (1)
  • IN: The Positronic Man (1992) Novel, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The tree laws of robotics 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Lynda Plante (1)
  • IN: The Talisman (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ROMANY CURSE He must lie with his treasures, be they tin or gold. Resting in finery, his back to the soil. One wheel of his vargon must light up with fire. In the flame is the evil, his pain and his soul. But beware of his talisman, carved out of stone. If not in his palm, then a curse is foretold. For who steals the charm of a dukkerin‘s son, Will walk in his shadow, bleed with his blood, Cry loud with his anguish and suffer his pain. His unquiet spirit will rise up again, His footsteps will echo unseen on the ground Until the curse is fulfilled, the talisman found.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bill Pronzini (1)
  • IN: Panic! (1972) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is the use of running, When you are on the wrong road?
    FROM: German Proverb, (None), Proverb, Germany
• Peter Tremayne (1)
  • IN: The Council of the Cursed (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: AD670:…et ad sacrosanctum concilium Autunium, Luna in sanguinem uersa est.
    FROM: Chronicon Regum Francorum et Gothorum, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Swain (1)
  • IN: Grift sense (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And God said to Moses, "Moses, come forth." And Moses came fifth, And it cost God Two hundred and fifty bucks.
    FROM: old gambler's joke, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sean McFate (1)
  • IN: Shadow War (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With lies, you may go forward in the world but you may never go back.
    FROM: Russian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Russia
• Susan Elia MacNeal (1)
  • IN: The Queen's Accomplice (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: AS A WARNING TO FEMALE VIRTUE, This Monument Is erected over the remains of MARY ASHFORD, a young Woman, chaste as she was beautiful, Who, in the 20th year of her age, having incautiously repaired to a Scene of Amusement, without proper Protection, was brutally violated and murdered on the 27th of May, 1817, in the Parish of Aston.
    FROM: Proposed Epitaph from a moral review of the conduct and case of Mary Ashford, (1818), Inscription, UK
• Manel Loureiro (1)
  • IN: Apocalypse 7: The Beginning of the End (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.
    FROM: Dawn of the Dead, (1978), Film, US
• Elizabeth Lowell (1)
  • IN: Beautiful Sacrifice (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If the covenant be kept on the night of December 21, 2012, then the Great Wheel shall grind the old world to dust, Kukulcan shall blow it beyond the Bacabs, and the followers of Kawa'il will rule in the Age of Kings.
    FROM: Modern Translation from the Lost Codex of Kawa'il, (2012), Saying, Ancient Maya
• Victor Robert Lee (1)
  • IN: Performance Anomalies (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Human performance anomalies arising from extremely rare genetic variations will be exploited for strategic and tactical purposes.
    FROM: Capabilities for a New Millennium, (None), NULL, US
• Laurie Lico Albanese (1)
  • IN: Stolen Beauty (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To every age its art; to art its freedom
    FROM: Secession Gallery Inscription, (1899), Inscription, NULL
• Brian Keene (1)
  • IN: Tequila's Sunrise (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where shall I go? Where shall I go? The road of the god of duality. Is your house in the place of the fleshless? Perchance inside heaven? Or here on earth only?
    FROM: Traditional Aztec funeral chant, (None), [NA], Mexico
• Mira Grant (12)
  • IN: Fed (2012) Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: wanted to tell the truth. I wanted to be the grand crusader who walked into the darkness and hauled the answers, kicking and screaming, into the light. I wanted to be a savior. All I succeeded in becoming was a fool. I have paid enough; I have paid too much; I’m done And I’m sorry.
    FROM: Images May Disturb You, the blog of Georgia Mason, June 19th, 2040., (2012), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Feed (2010) Fiction, Science Fiction, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everyone has someone on the Wall. No matter how remote you may think you are from the events that changed the world during the brutal summer of 2014, you have someone on the Wall. Maybe they’re a cousin, maybe they’re an old family friend, or maybe they’re just somebody you saw on TV once, but they’re yours. They belong to you. They died to make sure that you could sit in your safe little house behind your safe little walls, watching the words of one jaded twenty-two-year-old journalist go scrolling across your computer screen. Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you’re living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
    FROM: From Images May Disturb You, the blog of Georgia Mason, May 16, 2039, (2010), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Deadline (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I got another interview request yesterday from some brand-new baby blogger who’s looking for a scoop and wants to know how I’m “coping.” That’s apparently the only thing anyone thinks I’m doing these days. I’m “coping.” There are days when I feel like I’m never going to be allowed to do anything else. I’m going to walk through my life being Shaun Mason, the Dude Who Copes.Copes with a world filled with stupid people. Copes with a life that doesn’t include the one person who ever really mattered. Copes with everyone asking him whether he’s “coping,” when the answer should be totally obvious to anyone with a brain. How am I coping? I miss George, and the goddamn world is still full of zombies, that’s how. Everything else… Everything else is just details. And those don’t really matter to me anymore.
    FROM: From Adaptive Immunities, the blog of Shaun Mason, February 17, 2041, (2011), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Blackout (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So George says I have to write a “mission statement,” because our contract with Bridge Supporters says I will. I am personally opposed to mission statements, since they’re basically one more way of sucking the fun out of everything. I tried telling George this. She told me that it’s her job to suck the fun out of everything. She then threatened physical violence of a type I will not describe in detail, as it might unsettle and upset my theoretical readership. Suffice to say that I am writing a mission statement. Here it is: I, Shaun Phillip Mason, being of sound mind and body, do hereby swear to poke dead things with sticks, do stupid shit for your amusement, and put it all on the Internet where you can watch it over and over again. Because that’s what you want, right? Glad to oblige.
    FROM: From Hail to the King, the blog of Shaun Mason, June 20, 2035., (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Cherie Priest (2)
  • IN: Boneshaker (2009) Fiction, Alternate History, American
    EPIGRAPH: From its commencement to its close, giving an account of its origin, The Secession of the Southern States, and the Formation of the Confederate Government, the concentration of the Military and Financial resources of the federal government, the development of its vast power, the raising, organizing, and equipping of the contending armies and navies; lucid, vivid, and accurate descriptions of battles and bombardments, sieges and surrender of forts, captured batteries, etc., etc.; the immense financial resources and comprehensive measures of the government, the enthusiasm and patriotic contributions of the people, together with sketches of the lives of all the eminent statesmen and military and naval commanders, with a full and complete index. From Official Sources (1862)
    FROM: From Unlikely Episodes in Western History, (2009), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Family Plot (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She buried them under the marble stone, Then she turned and went on home.
    FROM: The Cruel Mother, (None), Poem, UK
• Veronica Roth (1)
  • IN: Insurgent (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.
    FROM: Candor faction manifesto, (2011), Fictional, NULL
• Rob Thurman (3)
  • IN: Blackout (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … and it’s been a bitch and a half.
    FROM: Leandros, Caliban, (2011), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Doubletake (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Unless we load our guns first.
    FROM: Leandros, Cal, (2009), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Slashback (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I cannot move Heaven,then I will raise Hell.
    FROM: Latin proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
• Charles Brockden Brown (4)
  • IN: Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1805) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From Virtue's blissful paths away The double-tongued are sure to stray; Good is a forth-right journey still, And mazy paths but lead to ill.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Wieland (1811) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From virtue’s blissful paths away: The double-tongued are sure to stray; Good is a forth-right journey still, And mazy paths but lead to ill.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Ormond; or the Secret witness (1800) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Those who plot the destruction of others, very often fall themselves the vićtims.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Eleanor Wong (1)
  • IN: Life~Science (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "~" The tilde -- a symbol used in mathematics to indicate equivalence and in logic to indicate negation.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Stephen Metcalfe (1)
  • IN: The Practical Navigator (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Navigation is the process of charting a course from one place to another.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Francesc Miralles (1)
  • IN: Wabi-Sabi (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is better to travel full of hope than to arrive.
    FROM: Japanese Proverb, (None), Proverb, Japan
• Alison Moore (1)
  • IN: Death and the Seaside (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: undertow n. = undercurrent, n. 1. a current of water below the surface and moving in a different direction from any surface current. 2. an underlying feeling of influence.
    FROM: Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, UK
• Christopher Moore (2)
  • IN: The Secondhand Souls (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Do not be afraid Everyone before you has died You cannot stay Any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb Leave behind all you know All you love Leave behind pain and suffering This is what Death is.
    FROM: The Book of Living and Dying (The Tibetan Book of the Dead), (1927), Book, Tibet
  • IN: Fluke (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Flue (flook) 1. A stroke of good luck 2. A chance occurrence; an accident 3. A bard or barbed head, as on a harpoon 4. Either of the two horizontally flattened divisions of the tail of the whale
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Laura Moriarty (1)
  • IN: The Chaperone (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When lovely woman stoops to folly, she can always find someone to stoop with her but not always someone to lift her up again to the level where she belongs.
    FROM: "Mr Grundy", Atlantic Monthly, (1920), Article, US
• Thomas Morris (1)
  • IN: We Don't Know What We're Doing (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The watermills belonged to the manor of Singraven near Denekamp... While the watermills do exist, the setting is Ruisdael's invention: there are no hills near Denekamp.
    FROM: From a note at the National Gallery for Van Ruisdael's Two Watermills and an Open Sluice at Singraven, (None), [NA], UK
• Sylvain Neuvel (2)
  • IN: Sleeping Giants (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A Theodore. Maintenant, on va t'apprendre a lire... et l'anglais.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Only Human (2018) Fiction, Science Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Eyaktept eket ontyask atakt oyansot ot. Eyantsant eps.
    FROM: NULL, (2018), Fictional, NULL
• Jean Johnson (2)
  • IN: The Grove (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Calm the magics caught in thrall: Put your faith in strangers’ pleas, Keeper, Witch, and treasure trove; Ride the wave to calm the trees, Servant saves the sacred Grove.
    FROM: NULL, (2013), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Guild (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cult’s awareness, it shall rise: Hidden people, gather now; Fight the demons, fight your doubt. Gearman’s strength shall then endow, When Guilds’ defender casts them out.
    FROM: NULL, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Colin Dexter (3)
  • IN: The Daughters of Cain (1994) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oxford is the Latin quarter of Cowley
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Death is Now My Neighbour (1996) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: A decided boon, therefore, are any multiple-choice items for those pupils in our classrooms who are either inured to idleness, or guilty of wilful ignorance. Such pupils, if simply and appropriately instructed, have only to plump for the same answer on each occasion - let us say, choice (a) from choices (a) (b) (c) (d) - in order to achieve a reasonably regular score of some 25% of the total marks available. This is a wholly satisfactory return for academic incompetence
    FROM: Crosscurrents in Assessment Criteria: Theory and Practice, HMSO, 1983, (1983), Book, NULL
  • IN: Morse’s Greatest Mystery and other stories (1993) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Admiring friend: “My, that’s a beautiful baby you have there!” Mother: “Oh, that’s nothing — you should see his photograph.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Reginald Hill (2)
  • IN: An April Shroud (1975) Fiction, Crime, American
    EPIGRAPH: De'il and Dalziel begin with ane letter The de'il's nae guid and Dalziel's nae better.
    FROM: Old Galloway Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
  • IN: Bones and Silence (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God: First when I wrought this world so wide, Wood and wind and waters wan, Heaven and hell was not to hide, With herbs and grass thus I began. In endless bliss to be and bide And to my likeness made I man, Lord and sire on ilka side Of all middle earth I made him then. A woman also with him wrought I, All in law to lead their life, I bade them wax and multiply, To fulfil this world, without strife. Sithen have men wrought so woefully And sin is now reigning so rife, That me repents and rues forthy That ever I made either man or wife.
    FROM: The York Cycle of Mystery Plays: 'The Building of the Ark', (1350), Play, UK
• Chigozie Obioma (1)
  • IN: The Fishermen (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The footsteps of one man cannot create a stampede.
    FROM: Igbo Proverb, (None), Proverb, Nigeria
• Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky (1)
  • IN: The Dead Mountaineer's Inn (1970) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Reports from the Vingus region, near the city of Mur, indicate the arrival of a flying machine, from which yellow-green humanoids possessing three legs and eight eyes each have emerged. In their thirst for scandal, the bourgeois press has rushed to call these humanoids visitors from another planet…
    FROM: From the Newspapers, (1970), Fictional, NULL
• Robin Wasserman (1)
  • IN: Frozen (2011) Horror, Fiction, Children's literature, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you had never seen anything but mounds of lead, pieces of marble, stones, and pebbles, and you were presented with a beautiful windup watch and little automata that spoke, sang, played the flute, ate, and drank, such as those which dextrous artists now know how to make, what would you think of them, how would you judge them, before you examined the springs that made them move? Would you not be led to believe that they had a soul like your own…?
    FROM: Anonymous, 1744 Translated from the French by Gaby Wood, (1744), [NA], France
• Michael Stackpole (1)
  • IN: Shadowrun 32: Wolf and Raven (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In my case, that includes surviving into my thirties I never thought I'd live long enough to be writing memoirs. Hell, I never thought I'd learn to write well enough to write memoirs. One of the things about associating with Doctor Raven is that you end up doing a lot of things you never thought possible. Anyway, the adventures I've written down here all took place back in the dawn of time-back a good six, eight years ago. Not very long in calendar days, but a lifetime when measured in physical therapy sessions and reconstructive surgery. Much of this will feel like ancient history to most of you. I'm hoping it will seem like that to me, too, one of these days.
    FROM: Wolfgang Kies, Seattle, 2059, (1997), Fictional, NULL
• Max Collins (3)
  • IN: The Million-Dollar Wound (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Say a prayer for my pal Who died in Guadalcanal.
    FROM: Commonest of inscriptions among the hundreds of crosses in a cemetery on that island, (None), Inscription, US
  • IN: The War of the Worlds Murder (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything seemed unimportant in the face of death.
    FROM: A radio listener, the day after the broadcast (The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic), (1940), Interview, US
  • IN: After the Dark (2003) Fiction, Speculative, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love sickness needs a love cure.
    FROM: Chinese proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Lawrence Osborne (2)
  • IN: Hunters in the Dark (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To show you mercy is no gain, to destroy you is no loss.
    FROM: The Angkar, (1975), NULL, Cambodia
  • IN: The Forgiven (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Many roads do not lead to the heart.
    FROM: Moroccan Proverb, (None), Proverb, Morroco
• Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (2)
  • IN: Dust (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Chon gi lala ...
    FROM: Luo story beginnings, (None), [NA], Kenya
• Matthew Palmer (1)
  • IN: The Wolf of Sarajevo (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We have met the enemy and he is us.
    FROM: Pogo, (1970), NULL, NULL
• Luke Rhinehart (2)
  • IN: Invasion (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Human beings are the planet's way of committing suicide.
    FROM: Anonymous FF, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Alan Foster (1)
  • IN: Terminator Salvation (2009) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I’ve been told I said that once. Many years from now. It was a warning. That I was going to hell. But if I fought hard enough, I could escape. I believed it for a lifetime.
    FROM: John Connor, (2009), Fictional, NULL
• Robert Sawyer (3)
  • IN: Golden Fleece (1990) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO GO INTO SPACE! THE UNITED NATIONS SPACE AGENCY REQUIRES PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE FOR FIRST EXTRASOLAR PLANETARY SURVEY We require 10,000 people to form the crew of Argo, first in UNSA’s Starcology (space-traveling arcology) series of Bussard-ramjet starships. Starcology Argo will conduct a complete survey of Eta Cephei IV (“Colchis”), a verdant, Earthlike world 47 light-years distant. True to the Starcology community-in-space idea, we will consider workers in all realms of human endeavor. Applicants must be under 30 years of age and in good general health. [R]eply to this posting and an application will be downloaded to your terminal.
    FROM: NULL, (1990), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Red Planet Blues (2013) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are strange things done ’neath the Martian sun By those who seek the mother lode; The ruddy trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The twin moonlights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the shore of a lake of yore I terminated a transferee.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Triggers (2012) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: E pluribus unum Out of many, one
    FROM: NULL, (1782), [NA], US
• Jack McDevitt (2)
  • IN: Eternity Road (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They came during the October of the World, Riding the twilight. To ensure that men would not forget.
    FROM: The Travels of Abraham Polk, (1997), Book, US
  • IN: Cauldron (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Out of the night they come, Raining fire and rock, Raking the cities of man, Living storms, Shaped in the Devil’s Cauldron.
    FROM: Sigma Hotel Book, (2007), Book, NULL
• Ben Bova (1)
  • IN: The Starcrossed (1975) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: May he fly high and strike terror in the hearts of the unjust.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Philip K. Dick (3)
  • IN: The Divine Invasion (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The time you have waited for has come. The work is complete; the final world is here. He has been transplanted and is alive.
    FROM: Mysterious voice in the night, (1981), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Valis (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System, from an American film): A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterized by quasi-consciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary coherence.
    FROM: Great Soviet Dictionary, (1926), Definition, Russia
  • IN: Beyond Lies the Wub (1951) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• M.J Rose (1)
  • IN: The Memorist (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The souls must reenter the absolute from where they have emerged. They must develop all the perfections; the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another…until they have acquired the condition that fits them for reunion with God.
    FROM: Kabbalah (Zohar), (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Raymond Khoury (1)
  • IN: The Sanctuary (2007) Thriller, Mystery, Historical, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tempus edax, homo edacior. (Time devours; man devours even more.)
    FROM: Ancient Roman saying, (None), Saying, Italy
• James Rollins (4)
  • IN: Map of Bones (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The holy relics were granted to Rainald von Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne (1159–67), following Emperor Barbarossa’s sacking of the city of Milan. Such a treasure was granted to the German Archbishop for his aid and chancellorship in service to the current Emperor. Not all were content to see such a treasure leave Italy…not without a struggle.
    FROM: From L’histoire de la Sainte Empire Romaine (The History of the Holy Roman Empire), 1845, HISTOIRES LITTÉRAIRES, (1845), Book, Italy
  • IN: The Doomsday Key (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock among many tribulations; after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people.
    FROM: The Prophecy of Saint Malachy, (1139), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: The Judas Strain (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why the bubonic plague suddenly arose out of China’s Gobi desert during the Middle Ages and slew a third of the world’s population remains unknown. In fact, no one knows why so many plagues and influenzas of the last century — SARS, the Avian Flu — have arisen out of Asia. But what is known with fair certainty: the next great pandemic will arise again out of the East.
    FROM: United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Compendium of Infectious Diseases, May 2006, (2006), Book, US
  • IN: Ice Hunt (2003) Fiction, Suspense, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Eskimo Village Vanishes! ARCHIVED RECORD: THE TORONTO DAILY STAR, NOVEMBER 23, 1937 ESKIMO VILLAGE VANISHES! RCMP Confirms Trapper’s Story Special to the Star, Lake Territory, November 23. The inspector for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police returned today to confirm the disappearance of an Eskimo village in the Northern Lakes region. Ten days ago, fur trapper Joe LaBelle contacted the RCMP to report a chilling discovery. While running a trapline, LaBelle snowshoed out to an isolated Eskimo village on the shores of Lake Anjikuni only to discover every inhabitant — man, woman, and child — had vanished from their huts and storehouses. “It was as if every one of them poor folk up and took off with no more than the shirts on their backs.” Inspector Pierre Menard of the RCMP returned with his team’s findings today and confirmed the trapper’s story. The village had indeed been found abandoned under most strange circumstances. “In our search, we discovered undisturbed foodstuff, gear, and provisions but no sign of the villagers. Not a single footprint or track.” Even the Eskimos’ sled dogs were found buried under the snow, starved to death. But the most disturbing discovery of all was reported at the end: the Eskimos’ ancestral graves were found excavated and emptied. The RCMP promises to continue the search, but for now the fate of the villagers remains a mystery.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Lincoln Child And Douglas Preston (1)
  • IN: Reliquary (1997) Fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: REL-I-QUARY relic-wary (n): a shrine or coffer for displaying an object, bone, or body part from a saint or deity
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Ruiz Zafon, Carlos (1)
  • IN: The Prisoner of Heaven (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have always known that one day I would return to these streets to tell the story of the man who lost his soul and his name among the shadows of a Barcelona trapped in a time of ashes and silence. These are pages written in the flames of the city of the damned, words etched in fire on the memory of the one who returned from among the dead with a promise nailed to his heart and a curse upon his head. The curtain rises, the audience falls silent and before the shadow lingering over their destiny descends upon the set, a chorus of pure souls takes the stage with a comedy in their hands and the blessed innocence of those who, believing the third act to be the last, wish to spin a Christmas story -- unaware that once the last page is turned, the poison of its words will drag them slowly but inexorably towards the heart of darkness.
    FROM: Carax, Julian in The Prisoner of Heaven, (1992), Fictional, NULL
• Patricia Scanlan (2)
  • IN: With all My Love (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the heart weeps for what is lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.
    FROM: Sufi Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
  • IN: City Woman (1993) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: There is a destiny that makes us brothers, None goes his way alone, All that we put into the lives of others Comes back into our own.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• M. P. Shiel (1)
  • IN: The Purple Cloud (1901) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: estai kai Samos ammos, eseitai Daelos adaelos
    FROM: Sibylline Prophecy, (None), Saying, Greece
• Zadie Smith (1)
  • IN: Swing Time (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the music changes, so does the dance.
    FROM: Hausa proverb, (None), Proverb, Niger/Nigeria
• Iris Smyles (1)
  • IN: Dating Tips for the Unemployed (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dear Kermit, Wocka, Wocka, Wocka! But seriously...
    FROM: Bear, Fozzie in The Muppets Take Manhattan, (1984), Film, US
• Amy Stewart (2)
  • IN: Girl Waits With Gun (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I got a revolver to protect us," said Miss Constance, "and I soon had use for it."
    FROM: New York Times, (1915), Article, US
  • IN: Lady Cop Makes Trouble (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Miss Constance Kopp, who once hid behind a tree near her home in Wyokoff, N. J. for five hours waiting to get a shot at a gang of Black Handers who had annoyed her, is now a Deputy Sheriff of Bergen County, N. J. and a terror to evildoers.
    FROM: New York Press, (1915), Article, US
• Karl Schroeder (1)
  • IN: Ventus (2002) Speculative fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking? — A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?
    FROM: Marjorie Cadille, The Successor to Science, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Richard Laymon (2)
  • IN: The Traveling Vampire Show (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come and see— the one and only known VAMPIRE in captivity! —VALERIA— Gorgeous! Beguiling! Lethal! This stunning beauty, born in the wilds of Transylvania, sleeps by day in her coffin. By night she feeds on the blood of strangers. See Valeria rise from the dead! Watch as she stalks volunteers from the audience! Tremble as she sinks her teeth into their necks! Scream as she gulps their blood! Where: Janks Field, 2 mi. south of Grandville on Route 3 When: One Show Only—Friday, midnight How Much: $10. (Nobody under age 18 allowed.)
    FROM: NULL, (2000), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Tread Softly (1997) Fiction, Horror, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beware on your journey, Tread softly with care. Beware of the hag In her dark mountain lair. Speak only in whispers, Don't wander alone. Take heed of the shadows — Watch out for the crone. She waits and she wants you. She knows you are there. Don't wander alone, Tread softly with care.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• John Shirley (3)
  • IN: BioShock Rapture (2011) Fiction, Game, American
    EPIGRAPH: Imagine if you could be smarter, stronger, healthier. What if you could even have amazing powers, light fires with your mind? That’s what plasmids do for a man
    FROM: The man who calls himself Atlas in BioShock, (2007), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Watch Dogs: Dark Clouds (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Watch dog, n 1. A person or group of persons who acts as a guardian against theft or illegal practices or waste. 2. A dog trained to guard property. 3. An individual who sees behind the curtain and is prepared to step forward when the need arises.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Charles Lamb (1)
  • IN: Eliana (1867) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Kind's chaff is as good as other people's corn.
    FROM: Old Proverb, (None), Proverb, NA
• Pierre Szalowski (1)
  • IN: Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather (2007) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Nowhere and everywhere in Montreal
    FROM: NULL, (1997), NULL, NULL
• Aatish Taseer (2)
  • IN: The Way Wings Were (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The god of love invented the strangest arrow in the world, one that can kill you if it strikes -- and kill you if it doesn't.
    FROM: A Prakrit verse from the Srngaraprakasa of Bhoja, (1908), Poem, India
  • IN: The Way Things Were (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Te god of love invented the strangest arrow in the world, one that can kill you if it strikes -- and kill you if it doesn't.
    FROM: Prakrit verse from the Srngaraprakasa of Bhoja, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Neal Barett (1)
  • IN: Judge Dredd (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the Third Millennium, the world changed. Climate… Nations… all were in upheaval. Humanity itself turned as violent as the planet. Civilization threatened to collapse. And then, a solution was found. The crumbling legal system was merged with the overburdened police, creating a powerful and efficient force for the People. These new guardians of Society were given the power to dispense both justice and punishment. They were police, jury and executioner. They were… …the Judges.
    FROM: History of the Mega-Cities James Olmeyer, III Chapter II: “Justice” 2191, (1995), Fictional, NULL
• George Saunders (1)
  • IN: In Persuasion Nation (2006) Fiction, Anthology, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our enemies will first assail the health of our commerce, throwing up this objection and that to innovative methods and approaches designed to expand our prosperity, and thus our freedom. Their oldfashioned clinging to obsolete ideas only signals their extinction. In the end, we must pity them: we are going forward with joy and hope; they are being left behind, mired in fear.
    FROM: Bernard "Ed" A Alton, Taskbook for the New Nation, (2006), Fictional, NULL
• Donald E. Westlake (1)
  • IN: What's The Worst That Could Happen? (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As the I Ching says: Difficulty at the beginning works supreme success. This is no time for levity — Oliver Hardy This is no time for levity. Hmp! — Stan Laurel, in agreement
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• James Crumley (1)
  • IN: One to Count Cadence (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fuck 'em all but nine - Six for pallbearers, Two for roadguards, And one to count cadence.
    FROM: Old Army Prayer, (None), [NA], NULL
• John Weisman (2)
  • IN: Direct Action (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: CAREERGUIDANCE101: Big ops, big risks Small ops, small risks No ops, no risks.
    FROM: Hand-lettered sign posted outside a cubicle in the CTC (Counterterrorist Center) at CIA headquarters, spring 2003, (2003), Inscription, US
  • IN: SOAR: A Black Ops Novel (2003) Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, War story, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who will not risk cannot win.
    FROM: ADMIRAL JOHN PAUL JONES, 1791, (1971), NULL, US
• Greg Bear (4)
  • IN: Foundation and Chaos (1998) Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The centuries recede, and the legend of Hari Seldon grows: the brilliant man, wise man, sad man who charted the course of the human future in the old Empire. But revisionist views prosper, and cannot always be easily dismissed. To understand Seldon, we are sometimes tempted to refer to apocrypha, myths, even fairy tales from those distant times. We are frustrated by the contradictions of incomplete documents and what amount to hagiographies. This we know without reference to the revisionists: that Seldon was brilliant, Seldon was key. But Seldon was neither saint nor divinely inspired prophet, and of course, he did not act alone. The most pervasive myths involve…
    FROM: Encyclopedia Galactica, 117th Edition, 1054 F.E., (1998), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Moving Mars (1993) Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A day on Mars is a little longer than a day on Earth: 24 hours and 40 minutes. A year on Mars is less than two Earth years: 686 Earth days, or 668 Martian days. Mars is 6,787 kilometers in diameter, compared to Earth’s 12,756 kilometers. Its gravitational acceleration is 3.71 meters per second squared, or just over one-third of Earth’s. The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Mars averages 5.6 millibars, about one-half of one percent of Earth’s. The atmosphere is largely composed of carbon dioxide. Temperatures at the “datum” or reference surface level (there is no “sea level,” as there are presently no seas) vary from -130° to +27° Celsius. An unprotected human on the surface of Mars would very likely freeze within minutes, but first would die of exposure to the near-vacuum. If this unfortunate human survived freezing and low pressure, and found a supply of oxygen to breathe, she would still be endangered by high levels of radiation from the sun and elsewhere. After Earth, Mars is the most hospitable planet in the Solar System.
    FROM: NULL, (1993), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Darwin's Children (2002) Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some legal experts say that even legitimate newspaper sites could be hacked or shut down without warning should approval be granted, and the granting of such approval is likely in itself to be kept secret.
    FROM: Seattle Times-PI Online, (None), Article, US
• Jess Walter (2)
  • IN: Beautiful Ruins (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cleopatra: I will not have love as my master. Marc Antony: Then you will not have love.
    FROM: Cleopatra, (1963), Film, US
  • IN: Citizen Vince (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A great nation is like a great man... He thinks of his ENEMY as the shadow that he himself casts.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Book, China
• Andria Williams (1)
  • IN: The Longest Night (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There can be no greater admiration than that of the husband... to return and find, as he had hoped, that his own wife has met the test of keeping up her end of things.
    FROM: The Army Officer's Guide (20th Edition), (1954), Book, US
• Martha Woodroof (1)
  • IN: Small Blessings (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tis the gift to be simple. 'Tis the gift to be free. 'Tis the gift to come down where you want to be. And when you find yourself in the place just right You will be in the Valley of Love and Delight.
    FROM: Shaker Hymn, (1848), Song, NULL
• Lee Woodruff (1)
  • IN: Those We Love Most (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Loss it not the end. It's simply an invitation to change.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William Godwin (1)
  • IN: Things As They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Amidst the woods the leopard knows his kind; The tyger preys not on the tyger brood; Man only is the common foe of man.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Robert Bage (1)
  • IN: Hermsprong; or Man As He is Not (1796) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nefcis, infane, nefcis, quantas vires virtus habcat. Quam illa ardentes amores excitaret fui, fi videretur. Maxims auten culpa in eo eft, qui, et veritatem afpernatur et in fraudem obfequio impellitur. Affentatio vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur; que, non modo amico, fed ne libero quidem digna eft.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Marcus Sakey (1)
  • IN: Brilliance (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: LATELY MUCH HAS BEEN MADE of Dr. Eugene Bryce and his study of the so-called “brilliants,” that percentage of children born since 1980 with exceptional abilities. While the full scope of their gifts is unknown, it’s clear that something remarkable has happened: savants are being born not once in a generation, but every hour of every day. Historically, the term “savant” was generally paired with another word, to form an unkind but not inaccurate phrase: idiot savant. Those rare individuals with superhuman gifts were generally crippled in some way. Broken geniuses, they were able to recreate the London skyline after only a moment’s glance, yet unable to order a cup of tea; able to intuit string theory or noncommutative geometry and yet be baffled by their mother’s smile. It was as though evolution was maintaining equilibrium, giving here, taking there. However, this is not the case with the “brilliants.” Dr. Bryce estimates that as many as one in a hundred children born since 1980 have these advantages, and that these children are otherwise statistically normal. They are smart, or not. Social, or not. Talented, or not. In other words, apart from their wondrous gifts, they are exactly as children have been since the dawn of man. Perhaps unsurprisingly, public discussion has focused on cause. Where did these children come from? Why now? Will this continue on forever, or will it end as abruptly as it began? But there’s a more important issue. A question with shattering implications. A question that is on the tip of our collective tongues, and yet that we do not discuss—perhaps because we fear the answer. What will happen when these children grow up?
    FROM: Excerpted from the New York Times, Opinion Pages, December 12, 1986, (1986), NULL, NULL
• Olen Steinhauer (1)
  • IN: The Nearest Exit (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are three emergency exits on this aircraft. Take a few moments now to locate the closest one. Please note that, in some cases, the nearest exit may be behind you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Duane Swierczynski (1)
  • IN: Fun and Games (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
    FROM: Popular Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Edgar Allan Poe (7)
  • IN: A Tale of Jerusalem (1832) Humour, American
    EPIGRAPH: Intensos rigidam in frontem ascendere canos Passus erat
    FROM: Lucan a bristly bore. Translation, (None), NULL, Italy
  • IN: Bon-Bon (1832) Humour, American
    EPIGRAPH: Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac Je suis plus savant que Balzac- Plus sage que Pibrac; Mon brass seul faisant l'attaque De la nation Coseaque, La mettroit au sac; De Charon je passerois le lac En dormant dans son bac, J'irois au fier Eac, Sans que mon coeur fit tic ni tac, Premmer du tabac.
    FROM: French Vaudeville, (None), NULL, France
  • IN: How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838) Parody, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the name of the prophets—figs!!
    FROM: Cry of Turkish fig-peddler., (None), NULL, Turkey
  • IN: The Business Man (1840) Humour, American
    EPIGRAPH: Method is the soul of business.
    FROM: Old Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
  • IN: The Pit and the Pendulum (1843) Horror, American
    EPIGRAPH: mpiatortorum longos hic turba furores Sanguinisinnocui, non satiata, aluit. Sospitenunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro, Morsubi dira fuit vita salusque patent.
    FROM: Le Réveil d'Apollon, (1796), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845) Humour, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is stranger than fiction.
    FROM: Old Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
  • IN: The Balloon-Hoax (1844) Fiction, Short Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ASTOUNDING NEWS! BY EXPRESS VIA NORFOLK! THE ATLANTIC CROSSED in THREE DAYS! ------------------ Signal Triumph of Mr Monck Mason's FLYING MACHINE!!!! Arrival at Sullivan's Island near Charlestone, S. C. of Mr Mason, Mr Robert Holland, Mr Henson, Mr Harrison Ainsworth, and four others, in the Steer- ing Balloon 'Victoria' -- After a passage of Seventy-Five Hours From Land to Land! Full Particulars of the Voyage!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ellery Queen (1)
  • IN: The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: I might paraphrase that interesting observation in Schlegel's Athenaeum goes: ‘Der Historiker ist ein riickwarts gekehrter Prophet/ by pointing out that: ‘The detective is a prophet looking backwards' Or Carlyle’s more subtle observation about history by agreeing that: The process of detection (as opposed to History ) is ‘a distillation of rumor.’
    FROM: Excerpt from an Anonymous Article in Esoterica Americana, Attributed by Some to Matsoyuma Tahukiy the Noted Japanese Authority on the Occident., (1934), Fictional, NULL
• Tony Hillerman (1)
  • IN: Skinwalkers (1986) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: We Navajo understand Coyote is always waiting out there, just out of sight. And Coyote is always hungry.
    FROM: Alex Etcitty, born to the Water Is Close People, (1986), Fictional, NULL
• Marcia Muller (1)
  • IN: Vanishing Point (2006) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: VANISHING POINT 1. a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction 2. (in the study of perspective in art) that point toward which receding parallel lines appear to converge
    FROM: Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, (1987), Definition, US
• Maria Edgeworth (3)
  • IN: Leonora (1806) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: II cieco scoglio E quel ch'inganna i marinari ancora Piu saggi. Chi non sa finger 1'amico, Non e fiero uemico."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Essay on Irish Bulls (1802) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Summos posse viros, & magna exempla daturos, Vervecum in patria, crassoque sub aëre nasci !
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
  • IN: Ennui (1893) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Tutta la gente in lieta fronte udiva Le graziose e finte istorielle, Ed i difeti altrui tosto scopriva Ciascuno, e non i proprj espressi in quelle; O se de' proprj sospettav, ignoti Credeali a ciascun altro, e a se sol noti.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Rudyard Kipling (3)
  • IN: Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these You bid me please? The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    FROM: The Convert, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Second Jungle Book (1895) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The stream is shrunk—the pool is dry, And we be comrades, thou and I; With fevered jowl and dusty flank Each jostling each along the bank; And by one drouthy fear made still, Forgoing thought of quest or kill. Now ‘neath his dam the fawn may see, The lean Pack-wolf as cowed as he, And the tall buck, unflinching, note The fangs that tore his father’s throat. The pools are shrunk—the streams are dry, And we be playmates, thou and I, Till yonder cloud—Good Hunting!—loose The rain that breaks our Water Truce.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Light That Failed (1890) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: So we settled it all when the storm was done As comf’y as comf’y could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow’s foot, Because he was five and a man;And that’s how it all began, my dears, And that’s how it all began.
    FROM: Big Barn stories, (None), NULL, NULL
• Robert Louis Stevenson (2)
  • IN: Weir of Hermistone (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn On Lammermuir. Hearkening I heard again In my precipitous city beaten bells Winnow the keen sea wind. And here afar, Intent on my own race and place, I wrote. Take thou the writing: thine it is. For who Burnished the sword, blew on the drowsy coal, Held still the target higher, chary of praise And prodigal of counsel - who but thou? So now, in the end, if this the least be good, If any deed be done, if any fire Burn in the imperfect page, the praise be thine.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Ebb-Tide (1894) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: 'There is a tide in the affairs of men.'
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• David Brin (3)
  • IN: Foundation’s Triumph (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Little is known about the final days of Hari Seldon, though many romanticized accounts exist, some of them purportedly by his own hand. None has any proved validity. What appears evident, however, is that Seldon spent his last months uneventfully, no doubt enjoying satisfaction in his life’s work. For with his gift of mathematical insight, and the powers of psychohistory at his command, he must surely have seen the panorama of history stretching before him, confirming the great path of destiny that he had already mapped out. Although death would soon claim him, no other mortal ever knew with such confidence and certainty the bright promise that the future would hold in store.
    FROM: Encyclopedia Galactica, —117th Edition, 1054 F.E., (1999), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Infinity's Shore (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those who hunger after wisdom often seek it in the highest heights, or profound depths. Yet, marvels are found in shallow sites where life starts, burgeons, and dies. What pinnacle, or lofty mount, offers lessons as poignant as the flowing river— a crashing reef— or the grave?
    FROM: from a Buyur wall inscription, found half-buried in a marsh near Far Wet Sanctuary, (1996), Inscription, NULL
  • IN: Existence (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: what matters? do i? or ai? + the question spins +/- as my body spins!/+ in time to a chirping window-bird “normal people” don’t think like this -/-/- nor aspies -/- nor even most autistics stop spinning! -/- there -/- now back to the holo-screen -› rain smatters the clatter window - bird is gone -/+ hiding from falling water + + like i hide from a falling civilization what matters then?/? progress? New minds?? after cortex, after libraries, the web, mesh, ai-grid – what’s next ?/! will it offer hope/doom for foolish humanity +/? for the glaring cobbly minds +/? or autistic-hybrids like me +/?
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Hugh Howey (9)
  • IN: First Shift: Legacy (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. That same year, CBS re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity’s broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened.
    FROM: NULL, (2012), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: I, Zombie (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Abandon Hope… …and bash in her skull before you go.
    FROM: NULL, (2012), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Second Shift: Order (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Silo 18 In the year of the Great Uprising Now they lay me in the deep, I pray the ’Lo my soul to keep. To keep me safe inside the earth. And if I die before I wake, I pray the ’Lo my soul to take. To take and grant another birth.
    FROM: Sasha Sway, (2012), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It started with a nightmare. And the nightmare became a dream. Then the dream became real…
    FROM: The Bern Seer, (2009), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Molly Fyde and the Land of Light (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the commons, a singular event occurred…
    FROM: The Bern Seer, (2010), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Molly Fyde and the Blood of Billions (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Only time—that plodding mute—will tell. And only the blind will see it coming.
    FROM: The Bern Seer, (2010), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Molly Fyde and the Fight for Peace (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Five links stand out in the chain that binds our will. There’s the primal urges, wound tight in nucleotidal strands. There’s the faith that surges through our clasped and superstitious hands. There’s the politics of kings and queens, and their many rules. There’s culture which forms mobs of motley fools. Last comes our decisions, stacked up in piles of regret that we long to forget. These five links stand out in the chain that binds our will. They hold us, guide us, coerce us— And we rattle them still.
    FROM: The Bern Seer, A Poem of Madness, (2010), Fictional, NULL
• Ann Christy (1)
  • IN: Silo 49: Deep Dark (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The Ten Tenets 1) We are different. We are the good. 2) All Conduct Above the Rails 3) What those within the silo need, the silo has provided 4) Nothing Wasted, Nothing Lost 5) Life is for Giving 6) Always Be Prepared 7) Reason is always the better choice. 8) One day we will reclaim the Outside 9) The Others are still out there 10) Thoughts are the bedrock upon which the silo rests.
    FROM: NULL, (2013), Fictional, NULL
• Regina Maria Roche (2)
  • IN: The Munster Cottage Boy (1820) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: " The world has now no joy for me, Nor can life now one pleasure boast, Since all my eyes desir'd to see, My wish, my hope, my all, is lost J" " Since she, so form'd to please and bless — . So wise, so innocent, so fair ! Whose converse sweet made sorrow less, And brighten-d all the gloom of care — " Since she is lost, ye Powers divine, What have I done, or thought, or said— Oh say, what horrid act of mine Has drawn this vengeance on my head ?"
    FROM: Martial, (None), Poem, NULL
  • IN: Castle Chapel (1825) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: " With awe-struck thought and pitying tears, I view that noble, stately dome, Where Ulster's kings of other years, . Fam'd heroes ! had their royal home : Alas ! how chang'd the times to come ! Their royal name low in the dust— i Their hapless race wild, wand'ring roam — Though rigid law cries out — 'twas just!"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Robyn Young (2)
  • IN: Requiem (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Requiem aeternam dona eis, domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. (Eternal rest give them, O Lord, and let everlasting light shine upon them.)
    FROM: Introit to the Mass for the Dead, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Kingdom (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: For we fight not for glory nor riches nor honours, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up except with his life.
    FROM: The Declaration of Arbroath, (1320), [NA], UK
• Gabrielle Zevin (1)
  • IN: The Hole We're In (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... that ellipsis tells a tale.
    FROM: Rolling Stone, (1999), Article, US
• Tamar Yellin (1)
  • IN: The Genizah at the House of Shepher (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Extrapolate.
    FROM: The Rabbis, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Mingmei Yip (4)
  • IN: Skeleton Women (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Stir the water to catch the fish -- benefit by creating chaos
    FROM: Thirty-Six Stratagems, (847), Proverb, China
  • IN: The Nine Fold Heaven (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Holding hands till our hair turns white.
    FROM: Chinese Classic of Poetry, (None), Book, China
  • IN: Secret of a Thousand Beauties (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: When a skillful woman enbroiders, it is like the spring breeze across her tapering fingers
    FROM: Ancient Chinese saying, (None), Saying, China
  • IN: The Witch's Market (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I beat you little man, so your breath has no place to vent! I beat your little hands, so they can’t draw money from the bank! I beat your little feet, so wearing shoes will make them bleed! I beat your little head, so fortune will leave you sad! I’ll beat your little tongue, so you can’t chew meat and might as well be a monk! I’ll beat your little heart, so your life is like the bitterest tart!
    FROM: Beating the Little Man, Ancient Chinese folk custom for getting rid of petty troublemakers, (None), [NA], China
• E. O. Wilson (1)
  • IN: Anthill (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Anthill [Me ante hil, ft. ante + hil hill] I: a hill thrown up by ants or by termites in digging their nests 2. a community congested with busy people unceasingly on the move
    FROM: Webster's Third New International Dictionary, (1961), Definition, NULL
• Don Winslow (1)
  • IN: The Dawn Patrol (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: wave (n): a disturbance that travels through a medium from one location fo another location.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Thomas Williams (2)
  • IN: The Hair of Harold Roux (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a man tries himself the verdict is in his favor. As easy as living.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Barbara Claypole White (1)
  • IN: The Unfinished Garden (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
    FROM: Swedish proverb, (None), Proverb, Sweden
• Elie Wiesel (1)
  • IN: The Judges (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And in those days the judges themselves were judged.
    FROM: The Midrash, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Vargas Llosa, Mario (2)
  • IN: The Feast of the Goat (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The people celebrate and go all the way for the Feast of the Goat the Thirtieth of May.
    FROM: They Killed the Goat, (None), Song, Dominican Republic
  • IN: The War of the End of the World (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The Antichrist was born To govern Brazil But the Counselor is come To deliver us from him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• M. G. Vassanji (1)
  • IN: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Po pote niendapo anifuata. (Wherever I go he follows me.)
    FROM: Swahili riddle, (None), Saying, African Great Lakes Region
• Gary McMahon (3)
  • IN: Beyond Here Lies Nothing (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Captain Clickety He’s coming your way Captain Clickety He’ll make you pay Once in the morning Twice in the night Three times Clickety Will give you a fright
    FROM: Traditional children’s skipping song (origin unknown), (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: Silent Voices (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
    FROM: Old English Nursery Rhyme (circa 1811), (1811), Song, UK
  • IN: Nightsiders (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man’s home is his castle.
    FROM: Old English folk saying, (None), Saying, UK
• Steven Erikson (3)
  • IN: The Bonehunters (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: For all that is made real In this age descending Where heroes leave naught But the iron ring of their names From bardic throats I stand in this silent heart Yearning the fading beat Of lives fallen to dust And the sifting whisper Proclaims glory's passing As the songs fail In dwindling echoes For all that is made real The chambers and halls Yawn empty to my cries - For someone must Give answer Give answer To all of this Someone The Age Descending
    FROM: Fethena,Torbora, (2006), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Crippled God (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If you never knew the worlds in my mind your sense of loss would be small pity and we’ll forget this on the trail. Take what you’re given and turn away the screwed face. I do not deserve it, no matter how narrow the strand of your private shore. If you will do your best I’ll meet your eye. It’s the clutch of arrows in hand that I do not trust bent to the smile hitching my way. We aren’t meeting in sorrow or some other suture bridging scars. We haven’t danced the same thin ice and my sympathy for your troubles I give freely without thought of reciprocity or scales on balance. It’s the decent thing, that’s all. Even if that thing is a stranger to so many. But there will be secrets you never knew and I would not choose any other way. All my arrows are buried and the sandy reach is broad and all that’s private cools pinned on the altar. Even the drips are gone, that child of wants with a mind full of worlds and his reddened tears. The days I feel mortal I so hate. The days in my worlds, are where I live for ever, and should dawn ever arrive I will to its light awaken as one reborn.
    FROM: Fisher kel Tath, (2011), Fictional, NULL
• Stephen Volk (1)
  • IN: Whitstable (2013) Fiction, Novella, British
    EPIGRAPH: Smile for the camera.
    FROM: Old Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Pinki Virani (1)
  • IN: Deaf Heaven (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Humko maalum hain Jannat ki haqeeqat lekin Dil ko behlaaney ke liye Yeh khayal achcha hain This idea of paradise, a heaven We know its real truth; But to keep a heart happy It is an acceptable thought.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], US
• Ivan Vladislavic (1)
  • IN: The Restless Supermarket (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Wher can we always find happiness? In the dictionary.
    FROM: Aubrey Tearle, (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Todd Tucker (1)
  • IN: Over and Under (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The trigger pull of the M6 Scout is a bit stiff for the smallest youngsters, but using four fingers at first, and later two on the unique squeeze bar trigger works well. The gun's accuracy is quite good, too -- a helpful trait in preventing discouragemenet in a young shooter.
    FROM: Hunting Digest, "The Best Guns for Kids", (1977), Article, US
• Ivan Turgenev (2)
  • IN: Virgin Soil (2000) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Virgin Soil should be turned up not by a harrow skimming over the surface, but by a plough biting deep into the earth.
    FROM: The Note-book of a Farmer, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: Spring Torrents (1872) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Those happy years, Those days so gay, Like the rush of spring torrents Have vanished away.
    FROM: [From a very old song], (None), Song, NULL
• Lisa Tuttle (2)
  • IN: The Mysteries (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: mystery n. a secret doctrine; anything very obscure; that which is beyond human knowledge to explain; anything artfully made difficult; a sacrement; a miracle play; a shiftless, drifting girl.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Chika Unigwe (1)
  • IN: Night Dancer (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Onwu egbuchughi ji e jiri chu aja, e mesie o pue ome. If the yam used in sacrifice does not die prematurely, it will eventually germinate.
    FROM: Igbo proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Deepak Unnikrishnan (1)
  • IN: Temporary People (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There exists this city built by labor, mostly me, who disappear after their respective bulidings are made. Once the last brick is laid, the glass spotless, the elevators functional, the plumbing operational, the laborers, every single one of them, begin to fade, before disappearing competely. Some believe the men become ghosts, haunting the facades they helped build. When visiting, take note. If you are outside, and there are buildings nearby, ghosts may already be falling, may even have landed on your person.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• John Updike (1)
  • IN: Rabbit Redux (1971) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lieut. Col. Vladimir A. Shatalov: I am heading straight for the socket. Lieut. Col. Boris V. Volynov, Soyuz 5 Commander: Easy, not so rough. Colenel Shatalov: It took me a while to find you, but now I've got you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Gabriel Urza (1)
  • IN: All that Followed (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gezurra esan nuen etxean; ni baino lehenago kalean. I told a lie at home and it was in the street before me.
    FROM: Basque Proverb, (None), Proverb, Basque Country
• Zoe Valdes (1)
  • IN: The Weeping Woman (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I walk alone across a vast landscape. The weather is fine. Not sunny though. The minutes do not pass. For the longest time, no friends, no people walking by. I walk alone. I talk, alone.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Catherynne M. Valente (1)
  • IN: Six-Gun Snow White (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Coyote had a plan which he knew he could carry out because of his great power. He took his heart and cut it in half. He put one half right at the tip of his nose and the other half at the end of his tail.
    FROM: Apache folktale, (None), Saying, US
• Betsy Tobin (1)
  • IN: Crimson China (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Share the sweet and the bitter.
    FROM: Old Chinese proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Hasan Ali Toptas (1)
  • IN: Reckless (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Why must we suffer? We search in vain for the key to this mystery, even as it consumes us.
    FROM: Avni of Yenisehir, (None), NULL, NULL
• Paul Torday (1)
  • IN: More than You Can Say (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A governemnt-commissioned report is recommending that servicemen and women be routinely screened for mental health problems throughout their employment... the report also calls for the creation of a specialist mental wellbeing website and online support network, focusing initially on troops returning from operations in Afghanistan.
    FROM: ITN News item, (2010), Article, UK
• Steve Toutonghi (2)
  • IN: Join (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: /* Enumerate the mysteries. */
    FROM: Code comment from a test harness written by Hamish Lyons, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Rupert Thomson (1)
  • IN: The Five Gates of Hell (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat...
    FROM: American Clapping Song, (1965), Song, US
• Adam Thorpe (2)
  • IN: The Rules of Perspective (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: World War II is estimated, rather uncertainly, to have cost between 35,000,000 and 60,000,000 lives. The U. S. S. R. has been reckoned to have lost 11,000,000 combatants and 7,000,000 civilians; Roland, 5,800,000 lives altogehter, including, however, some 3,200,000 of the 5,700,000 Jews put to death by the Nazis in the course of the war; Germany, 3,500,000 combatants dead and 780,000 civilianzs; China, 1,310,224 combatants ... with civilian losses dubiously estimated at 22,000,000; Japan, 1,300,000 combatants and 672,000 civilians; Yugoslavia, 305,000 and 1,200,000; the United Kingdom, 264,443 and 92,673; the United States, 292,131 and 6,000.
    FROM: Encyclopedia Britannica, (1974), Book, NULL
• Alexander Terekhov (1)
  • IN: The Rat-Killer (1997) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Svetloyar is a small lake in the woods of the Nizhny Novgorod region. According to an old folk legend, the town of Kitesh resisted the invasion of Batu Khan by submerging itself under the lake. In the popular imagination, Kitezh has remained unchanged underwater, with all its houses, churches and people intact. And if you are pure of heart, you will get a message from Kitezh: you will see at the lake's bottom the church domes, and hear its bells ringing, but the sinners will see Kitezh as just woods and wasteland, and this will continue until the end of times, until the second coming.
    FROM: From an old guide book, (None), Book, NULL
• Veronique Tadjo (1)
  • IN: Far From My Father (2014) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: This story is true, because it is anchored in reality, sunk deep into real life. But it is false as well, because it is the product of a literary endeavor where what really matters is not so much the accurary of the facts, but the intention behind the writing. Everything has been revised, reworked, reorganized. Some details have been muted, others, in contrast, emphasized. In short, what remains is a lie, or perhaps a joke on memory's part, a trick of the spoken word.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Thomas Steinbeck (1)
  • IN: In the Shadow of the Cypress (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Treue wisdom comes at great cost. Only ignorance is free.
    FROM: Taoist Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Young-en So (1)
  • IN: A Walk in the Mountains (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: So this is the despair he had spoken of to me, the deathlike void.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary Sojourner (1)
  • IN: 29 (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Their movement is as though an invisible hand were helping... Identification: Phycodurus eques
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Brittani Sonnenberg (1)
  • IN: Home Leave (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The purpose of home leave is to ensure that employees who live abroad for an extended period undergo reorientation and re-exposure in the United States on a regular basis.
    FROM: US State Department, (None), Book, US
• April Smith (3)
  • IN: White Shotgun (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the woods it is born, In the pasture it grazes, In the city it plays, The living carries the dead And the dead plays.
    FROM: "The Riddle of the Drum", Folk poem from the Palio of Siena, (2011), Poem, Italy
  • IN: A Star for Mrs. Blake (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In 1929, Congress enacted legislation that authorized the secretary of war to arrange for pilgrimages to the European cemeteries "by mothers and widows of members of military and naval forces of the United States who died in the service at any time between April 5, 1917, and July 1, 1921, and whose remains are now interred in such cemeteries." Congress later extended eligibility for pilgrimages to mothers and widows of men who died and were buried at sea or who died at sea or overseas and whose places of burial were unknown. The Office of the Quartermaster General determined that 17,389 women were eligible. By October 31, 1933, when the project ended, 6693 women had made the pilgrimage.
    FROM: National Archives, (1999), [NA], US
• Geoff Smith (2)
  • IN: Time of the Beast (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Now Grendel, with the wrath of God on his back, came out of the moors and the mist-ridden fells...
    FROM: Beowulf, (1815), Poem, UK
• Martin Cruz Smith (1)
  • IN: Canto for a Gypsy (1972) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If in the morning a Gypsy you meet, The rest of your day will be lucky and sweet, But if the black-robed priest comes first, Your luck is gone, expect the worst.
    FROM: an old saying of the Rom, (None), Saying, Italy
• Robert Reed (1)
  • IN: Mother Death (None) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our only imaginable concern—one barely worth mentioning—is that Alice, in her malicious wisdom, did give her talents to a Baby… and who can say what any child in any circumstance will at any given moment do…?
    FROM: a dispatch, from the Earth, (None), Fictional, NA
• James and Ledwidge, Michael Patterson (2)
  • IN: Step On A Crack (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Step on a crack, and you’ll soon be eaten By the bears that congregate at street corners, Waiting for their lunch to walk by.”
    FROM: City Sayings, (None), Saying, NULL
• James and McMahon, Neil Patterson (2)
  • IN: Toys (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A material object for children or others to play with (often an imitation of some familiar object); a plaything; also, something contrived for amusement rather than for practical use.
    FROM: The Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, NULL
• Michael and Pearce, Linda Pearce (1)
  • IN: Diaries of a Dwarven Rifleman (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They say heroes are forged in tragedy so I suppose I qualify on that score, several times over even. But the truth of the matter is that half the time I felt like a dog that'd been kicked 'till he just couldn't stand it anymore without biting back. I'll be damned if that se ems particularly heroic to me. But the life of the boy is what shapes the man.
    FROM: From the diaries of Engvyr Gunnarson, (None), Book, NULL
• Chris Simms (1)
  • IN: Killing the Beasts (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You live, you consume, you die.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Andrew Taylor (1)
  • IN: Bleeding Heart Square (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: …don’t go of a night into Bleeding Heart Square, It’s a dark, little, dirty, black, ill-looking yard, With queer people about…
    FROM: Extracted with modest modifications from “The Housewarming!!: A Legend of Bleedingheart Yard” (The Rev’d Richard Harris Barham: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels, Third Series, 1847), (1847), Fictional, NULL
• Smith,William J. (1)
  • IN: The Last Straw (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some hypotheses are rational— if not logical — but, by their nature, aren't exactly open to controlled experiment!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bernard Knight (1)
  • IN: Where Death Delights (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Taceant colloquia, effugiat risus. Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae…’ ‘Let conversation cease, let laughter flee. This is the place where death delights to help the living’
    FROM: Inscription on the marble wall of the City of New York Chief Medical Examiner’s Office and Morgue, (None), Inscription, US
• Gene Wolfe (2)
  • IN: On Blue's waters (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To Every Town: Like you we left friends and family and the light of the Long Sun for this new whorl we share with you. We would greet our brothers at home if we could. We have long wished to do this. Is it not so for you? He-hold-fire, a man of our town, has labored many seasons where our lander lifts high its head above our trees. The gray man speaks to He-hold-fire and to us, and it is his word that he will fly once again. Soon he will rise upon fire and fly like the eagle. We might clasp it to our bellies. That is not the way of hunters, and there are many beds of hide. Send a man to come with us. Send a woman, if it is your custom. One alone from each town of this new whorl, whether he or she. With us the one you send will return to our old home among the stars. Send soon. Send one only. We will not delay. Speak our word to others.
    FROM: The Men Of PAJAROCU, (1999), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Shadow & Claw (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jaspreet Singh (1)
  • IN: Helium (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ***[written in Tamil, can't enter -- check photograph]
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, India
• Nevil Shute (1)
  • IN: Trustee from the Toolroom (1960) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: An engineer is a man who can do for five bob what any bloody fool can do for a quid.
    FROM: Dictionary definition, (None), Definition, NULL
• Susan Sherman (1)
  • IN: The Little Russian (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Blessed art Thou, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who did not make me a slave.
    FROM: The Birchot Hashachar, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Mikhail Shishkin (1)
  • IN: Maidenhair (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And your ashes will be called, and will be told: "Return that which does not belong to you; reveal what you have kept to this time." For by the world was the world created, and by the word shall we be resurrected.
    FROM: Revelation of Baruch ben Neriah, (None), NULL, France
• Enid Shomer (1)
  • IN: The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To speak the names of the dead is to make them live again.
    FROM: The Book of the Dead, (-50), Book, Egypt
• Howard Shrier (1)
  • IN: Buffalo Jump (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Falling out the window
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Alex Shakar (1)
  • IN: Luminarium (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lead me from the unreal to the real.
    FROM: Brhadarapyaka Upanishad, (-501), Religious Text, NULL
• Francesc Seres (1)
  • IN: Russian Stories (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: My great-grandmother always told anyone prepared to listen to her that they should make portraits of Stalin and Lenin like icons, and that Marx was really a member of the church, with that patriarch's beard of his, and would be venerated by everyone the day he dressed like a saint and was photographed inside a church.
    FROM: Nikita Revenov, A Groundswell of Groans, (2009), Fictional, NULL
• Tom Franklin (1)
  • IN: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: M, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, humpback, humpback, I.
    FROM: How southern children are taught to spell Mississippi, (None), Song, US
• Charles Mccarry (1)
  • IN: The Tears Of Autumn (1974) Spy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “The Pentagon’s secret study of the Vietnam war discloses that President Kennedy knew and approved of plans for the military coup d’état that overthrew President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963… “‘Our complicity in his overthrow heightened our responsibilities and our commitments’ in Vietnam, the study finds…”
    FROM: THE PENTAGON PAPERS, as published by The New York Times, (1971), Book, US
• Andrew Vachss (4)
  • IN: Hard Candy (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They don't give medals on this planet for courage in urban combat. But there are silver stars shining in the sky that the astronomers can't explain.
    FROM: NULL, (1989), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Down in the Zero (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When winter vanished I searched, only to find you Missing and presumed
    FROM: NULL, (1994), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: False Allegations (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: a warrior, murdered by jackals whose voice, unstilled scars their dishonor into our souls marking our path
    FROM: NULL, (1996), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Safe House (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: for the grief we have harvested from the evil you have sown jackals will forever call you coward and vultures refuse your bones
    FROM: family curse, (1998), Fictional, NULL
• Stephen Leather (1)
  • IN: First Response (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: cleanskin n. an unbranded animal; a terrorist with no obvious links to terrorist groups, and who therefore does not appear on any watch lists.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Harlan Coben (3)
  • IN: Gone for Good (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A ma vie coeur entier
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Just One Look (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Babe, give me your best memory, But it don’t equal pale ink.
    FROM: Chinese proverb adapted for lyrics in song “Pale Ink” by the Jimmy X Band, (None), Song, China
  • IN: Darkest Fear (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a father gives to his son, they both laugh. When a son gives to his father, they both cry.
    FROM: Yiddish Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Jean Toomer (1)
  • IN: Cane (1923) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon, O cant you see it, O cant you see it, Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon …When the sun goes down.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Simon Montefiore (1)
  • IN: Sashenka (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Here I am abandoned, an orphan, with no one to look after me, And I will die before long and there'll be no one to pray at my grave, Only the nightingale will sing sometimes on the nearest tree...
    FROM: Song of Petrograd street children, (1917), NULL, NULL
• Courtney Miller Santo (1)
  • IN: The Roots of the Olive Tree (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the olive grove, a wise man at the feet and a wild man at the head.
    FROM: Italian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
• Vilas Sarang (1)
  • IN: The Women in Cages (2006) Fiction, Anthology, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ... his power is the will to create and he is impelled by the powers of the things to be created.
    FROM: Vishnu Purana, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• J. D. Salinger (1)
  • IN: For Esme - With Love and Squalor (1948) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We know the sound of two hands clapping. But what is the sound of one hand clapping?
    FROM: Zen Koan, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Sallis (1)
  • IN: Willnot (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hang me, oh hang me, I'll be dead and gone... Don't mind the hanging, it's the waiting around so long.
    FROM: Traditional song, (None), Song, NULL
• Craig Russell (2)
  • IN: The Valkyrie Song (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The heavens are stained with the blood of men, As the Valkyries sing their song
    FROM: Njal's Saga, (1280), Book, Iceland
  • IN: The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘I have a story to tell you,’ I said, after a while. ‘I’m afraid it’s not a pretty story and you won’t thank me for the telling of it. It’s also a story that a lot of people would kill - and have killed - to stop being told. Once I tell it to you, there are things that I will expect from each of you. But, I warn you, once you hear my story, you won’t be able to unheard it.’ They said nothing. So I told them it. I told them Quiet Tommy Quaid’s story.
    FROM: NULL, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Jacques Roubaud (1)
  • IN: The Loop (1993) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: It would be very difficult even for a saint to dream of his prenatal life.
    FROM: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, (1920), Book, Japan
• Matt Ruff (1)
  • IN: Mirage (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When God wants to punish you, He grants your wish.
    FROM: American Proverb, (None), Proverb, US
• M. J. Rose (1)
  • IN: Memorist (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Memory is then the key word which combines past and present, past and future.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Fran Ross (1)
  • IN: Oreo (1974) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oreo defined: Someone who is black on the outside and white on the inside.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Roxana Robinson (1)
  • IN: Sweetwater (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Adirondacks are a group of mountains in northeastern New York State known for pristine woodlands and spectacular scenery. They occupy 500 to 600 square miles within the counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Hamilton. The mountains consist of... gneiss, intrusive granite, and gabbro, and are geologically related to the Laurentian highlangs of Canada... The mountains form the water-parting in the landscape between the Hudson and the St. Lawrence Rivers. The region was once covered by the Lawrentian glacier, whose gradual but powerful erosion produced the characteristic features of the area: scores of lakes and ponds, and many picturesque falls and rapids in the streams. It is a region rich in waterways... As well as scenic appeal, the region is known for its rich and various flora and fauna. Much of the area has been preserved... over 3,000,000 acres have been set aside to form the Adirondack Park... the wildlife within the region is extraordinarily vigorous and multitudinous. The region is heavily forested with spruce, pine and broad-leaved trees. The mountain peaks are usually rounded, and easily scaled. The vistas thus achieved, of mountain, lake and plateau and forest, are almost unequalled in any other part of the United States for scenic grandeur.
    FROM: Encyclopedia Britannica, (1910), Book, NULL
• Charlotte Rogan (1)
  • IN: The Lifeboat (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I shall sing of the flood to all people. Listen!
    FROM: The myth of Atrahasis, (-1636), [NA], Iraq (Mesopotamia)
• Bethan Roberts (1)
  • IN: The Good Plain Cook (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Surely there could be no more fitting medium of individual expression for women than fashioning something of loveliness.
    FROM: The Big Book of Needlecraft, (1935), Book, NULL
• Gregor Von Rezzori (1)
  • IN: An Ermine in Czernopol (1966) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The ermine will die should her coat become soiled.
    FROM: Physiologus, (150), Religious Text, NULL
• Thomas Pynchon (1)
  • IN: Inherent Vice (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Under the paving-stones, the beach!
    FROM: Graffiti, (1968), NULL, France
• Zhongshu Qian (1)
  • IN: Fortress Besieged (1947) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Le mariage est comme une fortresse assiegee; ceux qui sont dehors veulent y entrer, et ceux qui sont dedans veulent en sortir. (Marriage is like a fortress besieged; those who are outside want to get in, and those who are inside want to get out.)
    FROM: French Proverb, (None), Proverb, France
• Kwei Quartey (1)
  • IN: Murder At Cape Three Points (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Money calls blood
    FROM: Akan Proverb, (None), Proverb, Ghana
• Jane Harvey (1)
  • IN: The Castle of Tynemouth: A Tale (1806) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No air-builtcastles, and no ſairy bowers, But thou, fair Tynemouth, and thy well.known towers, Now bid th' hiſtoric muſe explore the maze Of long paſt years, and tales of other days. Pride of Northumbria Z.ufrom thy crowded port, Where Europe*s brave commercial ſons reſort, - Her boaſted mines ſend forth their ſable ſtores, To buy the varied wealth of distant ſhores. Here the tall lighthouſe, bold in ſpiral height, Glads will: its welcome beam the ſeamaxvs ſight. Here, too, the firm redoubt, the ramparvs length, The death.fraught cannon, and the bafiioffls ſtrength, Hang frowning o'er the briny deep belowl To guard the coaſt againſt th' invading ſoe'. Here health ſalubrious ſpreads her balmy wings, And woos the ſufferer to her ſaline ſprings; . And, here the antiquarian ſtrays around The
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Alexander Pushkin (7)
  • IN: The Queen of Spades (1834) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Hermann waited for the appointed hour like a tiger trembling for its prey.
    FROM: Fortune-Telling Companion, Latest Edition, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories (1836) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Watch over your honor while you are young …
    FROM: Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: The Captain's Daughter (1836) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Take care of your honor when you are young.
    FROM: Popular Saying, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Eugene Onegin (1833) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Not thinking of the proud world's pleasure, But cherishing your friendship's claim, I would have wished a finer treasure To pledge my token to your name -- One worthy of your soul's perfection, The sacred dreams that fill your your gaze, Your verse's limpid, live complexion, Your noble thoughts and simple ways. But let it be. Take this collection Of sundry chapters as my suit: Half humorous, half pessimistic, Blending the plain and idealistic -- Amusement's yield, the careless fruit Of sleepless nights, light inspirations, Born of my green and withered years.... The intellect's cold observations, The heart's reflections, writ in tears.
    FROM: Dedication, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Shot (None) Fiction, Short Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I swore I would shoot him by the rules of dueling (I had not yet taken my shot at him).
    FROM: An Evening at Bivouac, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: At the Corner of a Little Square (None) Fiction, Short Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Votre coeur est l'éponge imbibée de fiel et de vinaigre.
    FROM: Correspondence inédite, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary Meeke (2)
  • IN: Langhton Priory (1809) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What though Religion's guardians taint her tide ! Pure is the fountain, though the stream flows wide ! Tee oft her erring guides her cause betray : Yet Rage grows impious 'when it bars her way.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Which is the Man? (1801) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: TEMPUS OMNIA REVZLAT.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Patricia Cornwell (2)
  • IN: Chaos (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: CHAOS From the Ancient Greek (Χάος or khάos) A vast chasm or void Anarchy The science of unpredictability
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Robert Wilson (1)
  • IN: The Affinities (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When an obscure data-management company launched what it called “the Affinities” a couple of years ago, almost no one paid attention. It was a quixotic idea that seemed to gain no traction: there was no ad campaign outside of a few media outlets in a few major cities, and not much press coverage even in those markets. But something surprising was happening under the radar … Invited as a special guest to a local meeting, I arrived with limited expectations. What I would find, I suspected, was a group of perfectly ordinary people who had been convinced to pay annual dues for the privilege of flattering one another, a commercial conceit of which P. T. Barnum might have been proud. But there was a real energy in the gathering—social, sexual, intellectual—that took me by surprise. It made me wonder where all this was going, and I asked one young woman what she thought the members of her Affinity might be doing in twenty or thirty years. She laughed at the question. “Writing our memoirs, I guess,” she said. “Or maybe signing our confessions.”
    FROM: The Atlantic, feature article, “Teleodynamics, Meir Klein, and the Rise of the Affinities”, (2015), Article, US
• Robert and Shea, Robert Wilson (1)
  • IN: The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Purple Sage opened his mouth and moved his tongue and so spake to them and he said: The Earth quakes and the Heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and then on other days it just rains. Indeed do many things come to pass.
    FROM: Lord Omar Khayaam Ravenhurst K.S.C, The Book of Predictions, The Honest Book of Truth, (1975), Fictional, NULL
• Oleg Mazurin (3)
  • IN: Famous killers, Famous victims (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In the stomach, in the head, shoot, And then do not check!
    FROM: Killer's Rule, (None), [NA], NULL
• Margaret Maron (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
• Donald Westlake (1)
  • IN: The Busy Body (1966) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If anyone shall dig up and plunder a buried corpse he shall be outlawed until he comes to an agreement with the relatives of the dead man, and they ask that he be allowed to come among men again.
    FROM: The Salic Law, (500), Legal Document, Netherlands/Belgium
• Matt Bell (2)
  • IN: Scrapper (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And God shall say God did it.
    FROM: Inscription inside St. Agnes Church, Detroit, Michigan, (None), Inscription, US
  • IN: In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It seems likely that there are but two and that these beget no offspring, for I believe it is always the same ones that appear.
    FROM: The King's Mirror, (None), Other?, Norway
• William Meikle (1)
  • IN: The Creeping Kelp (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: From Greenpeace Plastic pollution: A growing threat to the health of our oceans. The scale of pollution in all our oceans is vast. The majority of the plastic—80%— comes directly from land. Whales, dolphins, turtles, seals and countless other marine life have become victims of land litter. Marine debris is found floating in all the world’s oceans, even near the Polar Regions. It also contaminates the seabed. It is found everywhere, from the beaches of industrialized countries to the shores of the remotest, uninhabited islands. Because it doesn’t break down, such pollution can linger for years, affecting marine environments far from where it entered the ocean.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• James Lowder (1)
  • IN: Realms of Infamy (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So high a price So willingly paid Hot blood flows And a ruler is made.
    FROM: Mintiper Moonsilver Ballad of a Tyran, (1994), Fictional, NULL
• Dan Simmons (1)
  • IN: Darwin's Blade (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Darwin’s Blade: All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually stupidity.
    FROM: Darwin Minor, (2000), Fictional, NULL
• Daniel Silva (3)
  • IN: The English Assassin (2002) Fiction, Spy fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: gnome (nōm)n.Folklore any of a race of small, misshapen, dwarflike beings, supposed to dwell in the earth and guard its treasures
    FROM: Webster's New World Dictionary, (1951), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Black Widow (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The black flags will come from the East, led by mighty men, with long hair and beards, their surnames taken from their home towns.
    FROM: The Hadith, (None), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: The English Girl (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death.
    FROM: Corsican Proverb, (None), Proverb, Corsica
• Tami Hoag (3)
  • IN: Lucky’s Lady (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.” The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
    FROM: French Proverb, (None), Proverb, France
  • IN: Lucky's Lady (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point." The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
    FROM: French proverb, (None), Proverb, France
  • IN: Still Waters (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi. The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. Still waters run deep.
    FROM: Latin Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
• Brad Thor (6)
  • IN: The Lions Of Lucerne (2002) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fortes Fortuna Adjuvat. Fortune favors the brave.
    FROM: Latin Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
  • IN: The First Commandment (2007) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites. Do not wish ill for your enemy, plan it.
    FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
  • IN: Path Of The Assassin (2003) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Si vis pacem, para bellum. If you wish peace, prepare for war.
    FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
  • IN: Blowback (2005) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hannibal ad portas Hannibal is at the gates.
    FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
  • IN: Takedown (2006) Fiction, Spy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Exitus acta probat The ends justify the means.
    FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
  • IN: State Of The Union (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cunctando Regitur Mundis Waiting, one rules the world.
    FROM: Roman Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
• Dean Koontz (12)
  • IN: Odd Thomas (2003) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hope requires the contender Who sees no virtue in surrender. From the cradle to the bier. The heart must persevere.
    FROM: The Book of Counted Joys, (2003), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Lightning (1988) Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Roller coaster: a small gravity railroad… with steep inclines that produce sudden, speedy plunges for thrill-seeking passengers.
    FROM: The Random House Dictionary, (1966), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Darkness Under the Sun (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I was Death, harvesting lives. I knew my destiny was epic. Yet I killed one at a time, one at a time, one at a time. If my killing spree had been music — and it was music to me — you could rightly call it the simplest folk song. But I had set out to create a symphony of death, an immortal opera of terror. Then an unexpected encounter suddenly led me to understand that to fulfill my promise, to unleash my full potential, to compose truly memorable crescendos of destruction, I must kill entire families, use them first as I wished and then slaughter them. In killing any family, I was killing my own, which deserved to die. Inspiration can come from surprising sources. A child showed me the way.
    FROM: Alton Turner Blackwood, from the journal of Alton Turner Blackwood, (2010), Author, NULL
  • IN: False Memory (1999) Fiction, Suspense, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: AUTOPHOBIA is a real personality disorder. The term is used to describe three different conditions: (1) fear of being alone; (2) fear of being egotistical; (3) fear of oneself. The third is the rarest of these conditions.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Fear That Man (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And ye shall seek a new order of things…
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Icebound (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ARCTIC EXPEDITION TO BLOW LOOSE PIECE OF POLAR ICECAP TOMORROW THULE, Greenland, Jan. 14—At midnight tomorrow, scientists at the United Nations-funded Edgeway Station will detonate a series of explosive devices to separate a half-mile-square iceberg from the edge of the winter icecap, just 350 miles off the northeast coast of Greenland. Two United Nations trawlers, equipped with electronic tracking gear are waiting 230 miles to the south, where they will monitor the progress of the “bugged” iceberg. In an experiment designed to determine if Atlantic currents change substantially in northern regions during the severe Arctic winter…
    FROM: From The New York Times, (1976), NULL, NULL
• Andrew Gross (1)
  • IN: No Way Back (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If a body is just a body, who will step forward to ask why someone is killed and who killed them? If a body has no name or no history, then who will demand justice?
    FROM: A grieving mother of Mexico's drug wars, (None), Conversation, Mexico
• Elizabeth Peters (2)
  • IN: The Golden One (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We praise the Golden One, the Lady of Heaven, Lady of Fragrance, Eye of the Sun, the Great Goddess, Mistress of All the Gods,Lady of Turquoise, Mistress of Joy, Mistress of Music…that she may give us fine children, happiness, and a good husband.
    FROM: Epithets of Hathor, compiled from various sources, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Crocodile On The Sandbank (1975) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The love of my beloved is on yonder side A width of water is between us And a crocodile waiteth on the sandbank.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Egypt
• Nora Roberts (3)
  • IN: High Noon (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Do not forsake me, oh, my darlin'
    FROM: High Noon, (1952), Film, US
  • IN: Tears Of The Moon (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ah, kiss me, love, and miss me, love, and dry your bitter tears.
    FROM: Irish Pub Song, (None), Song, Ireland
  • IN: Red lily (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Grafting and budding involve joining two separate plants so that they function as one, creating a strong, healthy plant that has only the best characteristics as its two parents.
    FROM: American Horticulture Society Plant Propagation, (1999), Book, US
• Ken Follett (1)
  • IN: Night Over Water (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In September 1939 a British pound was worth $4.20. A shilling was one twentieth of a pound, or 21 cents. A penny was one twelfth of a shilling, or about two cents. A guinea was a pound and a shilling, or $4-41
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Gena Showalter (3)
  • IN: Animal Instincts (2006) Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ten Things You Shouldn't Say on a Date 1. You're wearing that? 2. Something smells funny. 3. Where's the Tylenol? 4. And to think, I first wanted to date your brother. 5. I have a confession to make… 6. My dad has a suit just like that. 7. That man is hot. Look at him. 8. My ex, may he rot in hell forever… 9. You're going to order that? Seriously? 10. You're how old?
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Playing With Fire (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ordinary-adj [ME ordinaire, fr. L ordinarius, fr. ordin-, ordo order] 1: of a kind to be expected in the normal order of events: ROUTINE, USUAL. 2a: of common quality, rank, or ability. 2b: deficient in quality: POOR, INFERIOR. 2c: lacking in refinement. 3: Belle Jamison.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• James Siegal (2)
  • IN: Deceit (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Once there were two villages. One village where they always told the truth. Another village where they always lied. One day a traveler came to a fork in the road. He knew one road led to the village where they always told the truth. In this village he would find food and shelter. The other road led to the village where everyone lied. In that village he knew he’d be beaten, robbed, even killed. A man stood at the fork in this road, but the traveler didn’t know which village this man came from. The one where they always told the truth, or the one where they always lied? “You can ask me one question,” the man said. “Just one.” The traveler thought and pondered and finally he knew which question to ask. He pointed to the left road and said: “Is this the road to your village?” “Yes,” the man answered him. The traveler nodded, said thank you, and started down the road. He knew if he was addressing a man from the village where they always told the truth, then it was of course the road to the right village. And if he were addressing someone from the village of liars, then the man would have to lie and say yes as well. Whether the man was the liar or the truth-teller, he would give exactly the same answer.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Detour (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Insurance Actuary calculates the tipping point between risk and probability, thereby hoping to reduce the likelihood of undesirable events.
    FROM: The Actuary Handbook, (None), Book, NULL
• Stephen Cannell (1)
  • IN: Runaway Heart (2003) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: The development of subhuman slaves by genetic transfer is a possibility and must be guarded against. There is no evidence that any government is now using the idea, but we must remember that Nazi Germany once experimented with eugenic theory against the Jews, slaves, and mentally retarded people
    FROM: Testimony before the subcommittee on investigations and oversight of the House Committee on Science and Technology; from the Presidential Commission Report Splicing Life (1982), (1982), Article, US
• Elizabeth Poliner (1)
  • IN: As Close To Us As Breathing (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You are as close to us as breathing, yet You are farther than the farthermost star.
    FROM: Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayer Book, (1975), Book, NULL
• Kevin Powers (1)
  • IN: The Yellow Birds (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A yellow bird With a yellow bill Was perched upon My windowsill I lured him in With a piece of bread And then I smashed His fucking head...
    FROM: Traditional U. S. Army Marching Cadence, (None), Song, US
• Jayne Anne Phillips (1)
  • IN: Quiet Dell (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: (Special) -- In the backyard of the Eicher home at Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago, stands a little marker, with the inscription, "Graveyard for Animals," scribbled in the childish handwriting of Annabel Eicher, 9. There the Eicher children had buried a bird, playmates said.
    FROM: The Clarksburg Telegram, (1931), [NA], NULL
• Leo Perutz (1)
  • IN: Little Apple (1987) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Where are you rolling, little apple...
    FROM: Russian Marching Song, (None), Song, Russia
• Allison Pearson (1)
  • IN: I don't know how she Does it (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: juggle: v. & n. v. 1. intr. perform feats of dexterity, esp. by tossing objects in the air and catching them, keeping several in the air at the same time. 2. tr. continue to deal with (several activities) at once, esp. with ingenuity. 3. intr. & tr. (foll. by with) a deceive or cheat. b. misrepresent (facts). c rearrange adroitly. n. 1. a piece of juggling. 2. a fraud.
    FROM: Concise Oxford Dictionary, (1911), Definition, NULL
• Miroslav Penkov (1)
  • IN: Stork Mountain (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem
    FROM: Alchemical Motto, (None), [NA], NULL
• David Peace (1)
  • IN: Nineteen Eighty-Three (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, this is the way to the fairy wood, Where the wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood; But this is the riddle that you must tell -- How is it, if it so befell, That he ate her up in that horrid way, In these pretty pages she lives today?
    FROM: Traditional, (None), [NA], NULL
• Ben Pastor (2)
  • IN: Liar Moon (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Luna Mendax
    FROM: A Liar Moon, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: A Dark Song of Blood (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Roma caput mundi regit orbis frena rotundi. (Rome, head of the world, holds the bridle of the globe.)
    FROM: Imperial Seal, (None), [NA], Italy
• Tony Parsons (3)
  • IN: Catching the Sun (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Do good -- get good. Do bad -- get bad.
    FROM: Thai Proverb, (None), Proverb, Thailand
  • IN: The Murder Bag (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And nothing in life shall sever The chain that is round us now.
    FROM: Eton Boating Song, (1863), [NA], UK
  • IN: My Favourite Wife (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man with two houses loses his mind. A man with two women loses his soul.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Tim Parks (1)
  • IN: Sex is Forbidden (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Enough of worldly affairs! I shall concentrate my mind in meditation, dragging it from false paths.
    FROM: The Bodhicaryavatara, (700), Religious Text, NULL
• Kejia Parssinen (1)
  • IN: The Ruins of Us (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Be in this world as a stranger, or as a traveler passing through it.
    FROM: Hadith, or Sayings of the Prophet, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Thomas O' Malley & Douglas Graham Purdy (1)
  • IN: Serpents in the Cold (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sicut Patribus, sit Deus Nobis. May God be with us, as he was with our fathers.
    FROM: Motto on seal of Boston, (None), Inscription, US
• Stewart O' Nan (1)
  • IN: Last Night in the Lolester (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Darden Restaurants, Inc., raised its outlook and expects full year 2005 diluted net earnings per share growth in the range of 22% to 27%...
    FROM: MSN. com, (None), Article, NULL
• O' Connor, Joseph (1)
  • IN: Redemption Falls (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... It no body ... got no ken ... how it go for woman that time ... in especial she poor ... you ain a thing but a beast ... cause a poorman gwine care for what beast he got ... but a woman just the stones on his road...
    FROM: Elizabeth Longstreet, (1928), Fictional, NULL
• O' Donoghue, Clare (1)
  • IN: The Double Wedding Ring (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are four corners to my bed, on which I now this new quilt spread. May I this night in trouble be, and the one I love come rescue me.
    FROM: Quilt superstition, (None), Superstition, NULL
• Mark Noce (1)
  • IN: Between Two Fires (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To endure a dilemma is to stand between two fires.
    FROM: Celtic Proverb, (None), Proverb, Ireland
• Kem Nunn (1)
  • IN: Chance (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Chance 1. The absence of any cause or series of causes of events as they actually happen that can be predicted, understood, or controlled. Sometimes granted agency, as in: Chance governs all.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Joyce Carol Oates (4)
  • IN: Carthage (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don't feel young now. I think I am old in my heart.
    FROM: American Iraq War Veteran, (2005), Conversation, US
  • IN: My Sister, My Love (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The death of a beautiful girl - child of no more than ten years of age is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
    FROM: The Aesthetics of Composition, E. A. Pym (a character in Edgar Allan Poe's narrative), (1846), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Middle Age: A Romance (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life devours life, but man breaks the cycle, man has memory.
    FROM: "Adam Berendt", (None), Author, NULL
  • IN: The Falls (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: By 1900 Niagara Falls had come to be known, to the dismay of local citizens and promoters of the prosperous tourist trade, as "Suicide's Paradise."
    FROM: A Brief History of Niagara Falls, (1969), Book, US
• Christina Nichol (1)
  • IN: Waiting for the Electricity (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's like Pandora's Box. When Zeus opened it everything flew out. What was left? Just hope.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jennifer Niven (1)
  • IN: Velva Jean Learns to Drive (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Something is calling her homeward -- Bidding her spread her wings and fly Up from the valleys and hillsides Into the bright golden sky.
    FROM: Velva Jean Hart, (2009), Fictional, NULL
• Raduan Nassar (2)
  • IN: A Cup of Rage (1978) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Hosannah! behold the man! Narcissus! always remote and fragile, anarchy's offspring
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Louise Erdrich (3)
  • IN: Four Souls (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She threw out one soul and it came back hungry. Kaanish inaa indinaawemaaganitog, Asemaa ingii pagichige chi otaapin aawat atasookanag. Aya ii onji wegonen ina pichi tazhimag kaaye pichi ozhibii’wag kaagi aaya sig. Kaawiin wiin aawiya nibaapinenimaasi. Pepekaan inenimishig. Miigwech, Weweni sago.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Master Butcher's Singing Club (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Die Gedanken sind frei Wer kann sie erraten Sie fliehen vorbei Wie nächtliche Schatten Kein mensch kann sie wissen Kein Jäger erschiessen Es bleibet dabei Die Gedanken sind frei.
    FROM: Thoughts Are Free, German song, (1780), Song, Germany
  • IN: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: here are four layers above the earth and four layers below. Sometimes in our dreams and creations we pass through the layers, which are also space and time. In saying the word nindinawemaganidok, or my relatives, we speak of everything that has existed in time, the known and the unknown, the unseen, the obvious, all that lived before or is living now in the worlds above and below.
    FROM: Nanapush, (2000), Author, NULL
• Jack Higgins (5)
  • IN: Thunder Point (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Whether Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and Secretary to Adolf Hitler, the most powerful man in Germany after the Führer, actually escaped from the Führer Bunker in Berlin in the early hours of May 2, 1945, or died trying to cross the Weidendammer Bridge has always been a matter of conjecture. Josef Stalin believed him to be alive; Jacob Glas, Bormann’s chauffeur, swore that he saw him in Munich after the war; and Eichmann told the Israelis he was still alive in 1960. Simon Wiesenthal, the greatest Nazi hunter of them all, always insisted he was alive, and then there was a Spaniard who had served in the German SS who insisted that Bormann had left Norway in a U-boat bound for South America at the very end of the war…
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Germany
  • IN: Eye Of The Storm (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The winds of heaven are blowing. Implement all that is on the table. May God be with you.
    FROM: Coded message, Iraq Radio, Baghdad January 1991, (1991), Conversation, Iraq
  • IN: Keys of Hell (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There are no Keys to Hell- the doors are open to all men.
    FROM: Albanian Proverb, (None), Saying, Albania
  • IN: The Wolf at the Door (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Wolf at the door is your greatest Danger and not only in Winter.
    FROM: Russian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Russia
  • IN: The Death Trade (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Above all things, cherish life while you can, for death is serious business.
    FROM: Sufi Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• John Katzenbach (1)
  • IN: Hart's War (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When you win the prize they tell you a joke: Now you know the first line of your own obituary.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Antonio Munoz Molina (1)
  • IN: In The Night of Time (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Can it be true that our country is shattered, life suspended, everything unresolved.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Timeri N. Murari (1)
  • IN: The Taliban Cricket Club (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There is no place for any act of violence on the field of play.
    FROM: Preamble No. 6 in the Laws of Cricket, (1755), Book, NULL
• Wieslaw Mysliwski (1)
  • IN: Stone Upon Stone (1999) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Stone upon stone On stone a stone And on that stone Another stone
    FROM: folk song, (None), Song, NULL
• Johanna Moran (1)
  • IN: The Wives of Henry Oades (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tena, ki te riro ko ta te teina ki mua whanau mai ai, hei muri ko ta te tuakana whanau ai, na, he iwi kino taua iwi hou, ina tae mai ki tenei Motu. (But, if it happens that the child of the younger is born first, and of the elder afterward, then the newcomers will be an evil people, when they arrive in this Land.)
    FROM: Maori premonition of disorder, (None), [NA], Maori
• Kate Mosse (2)
  • IN: The Winter Ghosts (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lo vielh Ivern ambe sa samba ranca Ara es tornat dins los nostres camins Le neu retrais una flassada blanca E'l Cerc bronzis dins las brancas dels pins. (Pitiful old Winter has returned, Limping up and down our roads, Spreading his white blanket of snow While the Cers wind cries in the branches of the pine trees.)
    FROM: Occitan song, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: Labyrinth (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tên përdu, jhamâi sē rëcôbro Time lost can never be regained
    FROM: Medieval Occitan proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Len Deighton (1)
  • IN: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (1976) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    FROM: Epitaph on grave of unknown astronomer, (None), Inscription, NULL
• Bradby,Tom (1)
  • IN: The Master of Rain (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ACCORDING TO CHINESE LEGEND, AFFAIRS IN THE “OTHER WORLD” ARE MANAGED BY BUREAUS OR MINISTRIES. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT OF THESE IS THE MINISTRY OF THUNDER AND STORM, PRESIDED OVER BY THE MASTER OF RAIN. IN THE CLOSE, INTENSE HEAT OF THE SHANGHAI SUMMER, THE MASTER OF RAIN STANDS ABOVE THE DARK CLOUDS THAT HANG OVER THE CITY, BROODING UPON ITS FATE. THE RAIN IS IN HIS GIFT, AND THUS HE CONTROLS THE FERTILITY OF THE LAND AND THE PROSPERITY OF ITS INHABITANTS. HE IS AN OMNIPOTENT AND CAPRICIOUS BENEFACTOR—OR TORMENTOR.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], China
• Charlie Huston (1)
  • IN: The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sweet Virginia again on the sharp edge of a flat world
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Chris Ryan (3)
  • IN: The Watchman (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He kitenga kanohi, He hokinga whakaaro. (To see a face is to stir the memory.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), Maori Proverb, New Zealand
  • IN: Osama (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When the decision to assassinate has been reached, the tactics of the operation must be planned, based upon an estimate of the situation similar to that used in military operations.’
    FROM: From declassified CIA manual ‘A Study of Assassination’, (1953), [NA], US
  • IN: Hunter Killer (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all.”
    FROM: Japanse Proverb, (None), Proverb, Japan
• Brad Meltzer (1)
  • IN: The Tenth Justice (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In a capital full of classified matters, and full of leaks, the Court keeps private matters private. Reporters may speculate; but details of discussion are never disclosed, and the vote is revealed only when a decision is announced.
    FROM: The Supreme Court Historical Society, (None), NULL, US
• Frank Schätzing (1)
  • IN: The Swarm (2004) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: hishuk ish ts'awalk
    FROM: Nuu-chah-nulth tribe, Vancouver Island, (None), [NA], Canada
• Gregory Funaro (1)
  • IN: The Impaler (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O mighty lord! O exalted god of battle! Thou art brilliant in the bright heavens! Let me proclaim thy greatness! Let me bow in humility before thee!
    FROM: Ancient Babylonian prayer, (None), Religious Text, Iraq
• Sunny Collins (1)
  • IN: Trouble in High Heels (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: High heels weaken men’s knees.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Rick Yancey (2)
  • IN: The Monstrumologist (2009) Gothic Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … another island, midway, live people of stature and ugly nature, which have no head and their eyes on the back and mouth, crooked as a horseshoe, in the midst of the breasts. On another island, there are many people without heads, and which has the eyes and head in the back.
    FROM: Wonders of the World, (1356), Book, NULL
• Scott Mariani (1)
  • IN: The Forgotten Holocaust (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They are going! They are going! The Irish are going with a vengeance! Soon a Celt will be as rare on the banks of the Liffey as a red man on the banks of the Hudson.
    FROM: The London Times, 1847, (1847), Article, UK
• Gregg Olsen (2)
  • IN: Victim Six (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Doing what I do is hard enough… Finding the right girl, the one who knows her place, that’s damn near impossible these days.
    FROM: FROM AN E-MAIL RECOVERED FROM THE SUSPECT’S COMPUTER, (2010), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: A Wicked Snow (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the Oregon farm she ran, Claire Logan hatched a plan. She told the men they’d better hurry, “Come out West and we’ll marry.” But just how many did she bury? One, two, three, four…
    FROM: A jump-rope verse from the 1970s, (1975), Song, US
• John Mortimer (3)
  • IN: Rumpole Misbehaves (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the statutory provisions relating to anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are not entirely straightforward...
    FROM: Anti-social Behaviour Orders: A Guide for the Judiciary, (None), Book, UK
  • IN: The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the statutory provisions relating to anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are not entirely straightforward...
    FROM: Anti-social Behaviour Orders: A Guide for the Judiciary, (None), Book, NULL
  • IN: Misbehaves (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the statutory provisions relating to anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are not entirely straightforward...
    FROM: Anti-social Behaviour Orders: A Guide for the Judiciary, (None), NULL, NULL
• Eric Morecambe (1)
  • IN: Mr. Lonely (1981) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: [Mr Lonely] song sheet
    FROM: Mr Lonely/Sid's Song, (1981), Song, NULL
• Alex Mitchell (1)
  • IN: The 13th Tablet (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... and turned to blackness all that had been light. The land shattered like a pot. All day long the South Wind blew, blowing fast, submerging the mountain in water, overwhelming the people like an attack... they could not recognize each other in the torrent. The gods were frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu.
    FROM: Epic of Gilgamesh XI, (-1800), Religious Text, NULL
• Yan Mo (1)
  • IN: Sandalwood Death (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The finest play ever staged cannot compete with the spectacle of a public slicing.
    FROM: Zhao Jia, (2001), Fictional, NULL
• Walter Moers (1)
  • IN: The Alchemaster's Apprentice (2007) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Up is down and ugly is beautiful.
    FROM: Leathermouse motto, (2007), Fictional, NULL
• Christian Moerk (1)
  • IN: Darling Jim (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In Ireland, in Cromwell's time, wolves were particularly troublesome and said to be increasing in numbers, so that special measures were taken for their destruction... The date of their final disappearance cannot now be ascertained.
    FROM: Encyclopedia Britannica, (1911), Book, NULL
• A. G. Mojtabai (1)
  • IN: Parts of a World (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah. Though he tarry, I will wait for him... I believe.
    FROM: Ani Ma'amin, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Alex Mindt (1)
  • IN: male of the species (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Remember, as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family.
    FROM: Homer Simpson, (1990), Fictional, NULL
• Anchee Min (4)
  • IN: Becoming Madame Mao (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.
    FROM: Brihadaranyaka Upanishads IV. 4. 5., (-700), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: Empress Orchid (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She was a mastermind of pure evil and intrigue.
    FROM: Chinese textbook (in print 1949-1991), (None), Book, China
  • IN: The Last Empress (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She was a mastermind of pure evil and intrigue.
    FROM: Chinese textbook (in print 1949-1991), (None), Book, China
  • IN: Wild Ginger (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: During a certain period of our lives, we possess youth. The rest we spend living in the memories of it.
    FROM: from the diary of a former Red Guard, (None), Book, China
• Zygmunt Miloszewski (3)
  • IN: A Grain of Truth (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It is the prosecutor's duty to strive to establish the truth.
    FROM: Ethical principles for the Prosecutor, (None), NULL, NULL
• Amelia Opie (2)
  • IN: Temper: Or, Domestic Scenes (1812) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: " A horse not broken becometh headstrong, and a child left to himself will be wilful."
    FROM: Son of Sirach, (-175), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: Madeline (1822) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are denied, And pleased with favours given; This, this alone is wisdom's part, This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to Heaven.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sidney Sheldon (1)
  • IN: The Doomsday Conspiracy (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES
    FROM: Ancient Chinese curse, (None), [NA], China
• Noel Hynd (2)
  • IN: Countdown in Cairo (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beware: Some liars tell the truth!
    FROM: Ancient Arab proverb, (None), Proverb, Arab
  • IN: Conspiracy in Kiev (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.
    FROM: Unknown Russian diplomat, (None), [NA], Russia
• Stephen Hunter (5)
  • IN: The Master Sniper (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Marksmen are not limited to the location of their unit and are free to move anywhere they can see a valuable target….
    FROM: Instructions for use of S.m.K. cartridges and rifles with telescopic sights, 1915, (1915), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Second Saladin (1982) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We the suicide fighters, heroes of the nation, lions of black times We shall sacrifice our lives and our property for the sake of liberated Kurdistan. We shall wreak vengeance upon the many guilty hands which sought to destroy the Kurds And that shall serve as a lesson for the generations to follow.
    FROM: Hymn of the Kurdish Fighters, (None), Song, Turkey
  • IN: Dead Zero (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 1. Pull pin. Hold unit upright. 2. Aim at base of fire. Stand back. 3. Press trigger. Sweep side to side.
    FROM: Common fire extinguisher instructions, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Havana (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ricky: Oh, Lucy! Lucy: Oh, Ricky!
    FROM: I Love Lucy, CBS, 1953, (1953), Other?, NULL
  • IN: Soft Target (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Feathers flew like a turkey! Well, they shouldna run, they shouldna run.
    FROM: Crazy Lee, The Wild Bunch, 1969, (1969), Film, US
• Henri Charrière (1)
  • IN: Banco: the Further Adventures of Papillon (1972) Autobiography, French
    EPIGRAPH: What you think of yourself matters more than what others think of you
    FROM: author unknown to Papillon, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Twining (1)
  • IN: The Geneva Deception (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun It’s been the ruin of many a poor boy And me, Oh Lord! was one
    FROM: Traditional American folk song (The House of the Rising Sun), (1925), Song, US
• Leann Sweeney (2)
  • IN: The Cat, the Lady and the Liar (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In ancient Egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
    FROM: Unknown, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Cat, the Mill, and the Murderer (2013) Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you stared deep into a cat's eyes, you would be able to see into the world of spirits.
    FROM: English Proverb, (None), Proverb, UK
• Deborah Crombie (2)
  • IN: Necessary as Blood (2009) Fiction, Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: Umbra Sumus-“We are shadows.”
    FROM: Inscription on the sundial of the Huguenot church, now the Jamme Masjid mosque, on Brick Lane, (None), Inscription, UK
  • IN: The Sound of Broken Glass (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...Denmark Street is forever associated with music. Earning the nickname of London's Tin Pan Alley in the 1920s, musicians have flocked to this renowned corner of Soho since its origins as a sheet music supplier in Victorian times.
    FROM: www.covent-garden.co.ul, (None), Website, NULL
• Don Pendleton (1)
  • IN: Day of Mourning (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The world dies 'twixt every heartbeat, and is born again in each new perception of the mind. For each of us, the order of life is to perceive and perish and perceive again, and who can say which is which for every human experience builds a new world in its own image and death itself is but an unusual perception. Live large that you may experience large and thus, hopefully, die large.
    FROM: A soldada's final words, Translated from the Spanish for Bolan in Miami Massacre, (1984), Fictional, Spain
• Harry Matthews (1)
  • IN: My Life in CIA (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I asked Patrick if there was anything particularly useful he could pass on to me "about the CIA." "The first thing to remember is that nobody connected with the Agency calls it the CIA. It's plain CIA.
    FROM: page 66, book, (400), Book, US
• Anna Maria Porter (1)
  • IN: The Lake of Killarney (1804) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Qual Sacrificio Padre farci Se fate il win cere Gli affetti mici, Opra fi facile Per queſto cor? What ſacrifice ſhould I make, if conquering my affection were an eaſy taſk for my heart 2
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• G. M. Malliet (1)
  • IN: Devil's Breath (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hi-diddle-dee-dee An actor's life for me.
    FROM: "Pinocchio", Honest John, (1940), Song, US/Denmark
• Christopher Marquis (1)
  • IN: A hole in the heart (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All five of the world's loon species may be found in Alaska. The bird's distinctive yodel evokes insane laughter for some, implacable mourning for others. As much as any other sound, the cry of the loon is identified with the call of the wind.
    FROM: The Pemberton Guide to Alaska's Birds, (2003), Book, NULL
• Mia March (1)
  • IN: The Meryl Streep Movie Club (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
    FROM: Out of Africa, (1985), Film, US
• Diego Marani (1)
  • IN: The Interpreter (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In times to come, chaos will reign in Hell itself.
    FROM: Serbian proverb, (None), Proverb, Serbia
• Henning Mankell (5)
  • IN: The Troubled Man (2009) Fiction, Crime Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow. You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.
    FROM: Graffiti on buildings in New York City, (None), Inscription, US
  • IN: The Fifth Woman (1996) Fiction, Crime Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “With love and care the spiderweb weaves its spider.”
    FROM: African proverb, (None), Proverb, Africa
  • IN: After the Fire (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Much has he leanred who knows sorrow.
    FROM: The Song of Roland, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The White Lioness (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Who dares to play while the lion roars?
    FROM: African Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Luisge Martin (1)
  • IN: The Same City (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Without stirring abroad One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes, The less one knows.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Religious Text, China
• Tim Maleeny (2)
  • IN: Greasing the Pinata (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: El negocio es uno y el parentesco es otro. (Business is one thing, and kinship is another.)
    FROM: Mexican folk saying, (None), Folk saying, Mexico
• Minette Walters (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
• Robert Harris (3)
  • IN: Imperium (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: IRO, M. Tullius, the secretary of Cicero. He was not only the amanuensis of the orator, and his assistant in literary labor, but was himself an author of no mean reputation, and the inventor of the art of shorthand, which made it possible to take down fully and correctly the words of public speakers, however rapid their enunciation. After the death of Cicero, Tiro purchased a farm in the neighborhood of Puteoli, to which he retired and lived, according to Hieronymous, until he reached his hundredth year. Asconius Pedianus (in Pro Milone 38) refers to the fourth book of a life of Cicero by Tiro.
    FROM: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol. III, edited by William L. Smith, London, 1851 [extracted], (1851), Book, UK
  • IN: Fatherland (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I swear to Thee, Adolf Hitler, As Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German Reich, Loyalty and Bravery. I vow to Thee and to the superiors Whom Thou shalt appoint Obedience unto Death, So help me God.
    FROM: SS OATH, (1925), Speech, Germany
  • IN: Enigma (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: WHISPERS: the sounds made by an enemy wireless transmitter immediately before it begins to broadcast a coded message.
    FROM: A Lexicon of Cryptography ('Most Secret', Bletchley Park, 1943), (1943), Book, Germany
• Tom Knox (1)
  • IN: Bible of the Dead (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A darkness will settle on the people of Cambodia. There will be houses but no people in them, roads but no travellers; the land will be ruled by barbarians with no religion; blood will run so deep as to touch the belly of the elephant. Only the deaf and the mute will survive.
    FROM: Ancient Cambodian Prophecy, (None), [Na], Cambodia
• Arnaldur Indriðason (1)
  • IN: Hypothermia (2007) Fiction, Icelandic
    EPIGRAPH: ‘The elder brother recovered from his frostbite but was said to be left gloomy and withdrawn by his ordeal.’
    FROM: Tragedy on Eskifjördur Moor, (2007), Fictional, NULL
• Michael Gruber (1)
  • IN: Valley of Bones (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Blood of Christ, Society of Nursing Sisters of the (SBC) Founded by Bd. Marie-Ange de Berville in 1895, the Nursing Sisters of the Blood of Christ are dedicated to giving succor and providing healing to the innocent victims of war and oppression. The order, which was one of the few to retain the habit after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, is noted for its almost military discipline and its custom of recruiting very young girls from the ranks of abandoned and disabled children throughout the world, although this aspect of its work has been widely criticized. Sisters of the order have distinguished themselves by their bravery and self-sacrifice during both world wars and thereafter in many fields of strife. Although counting no more than three thousand professed sisters and oblates at the present time, it has lost to death over 120 of its number, more than any other order in modern times. Traditionally, its members categorically refuse to leave patients and communities for which they have taken responsibility, in keeping with the order’s motto “Where we go, we remain.”See also Bd. Marie-Ange de Berville; Pope Pius XI; Cardinal Matteo Ratti.
    FROM: ENCYCLOPEDIA CATHOLICA, 2D ED.,1997, (1997), Book, NULL
• Arthur Hailey (4)
  • IN: OVERLOAD (1978) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since . . . 1974, the rate at which new electrical generating capacity has been built in California has fallen to less than half of the 1970-74 level. As a result, the threat of an economically ruinous power crunch by the 1990's is very real; and there is already apprehension over the danger of brownouts and blackouts in the 1980's . . .
    FROM: Fortune Magazine, (None), Article, US
  • IN: Runway Zero-Eight (1958) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: FLIGHT LOG 2205—0045 0045—0145 0145—0220 0220—0245 0245—0300 0300—0325 0325—0420 0420—0435 0435—0505 0505—0525 0525—0535
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Wheels (1975) Fiction, Suspense, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is absolutely impossible to sleep anywhere in the City. The perpetual traffic of wagons in the narrow winding streets ... is sufficient to wake the dead ...
    FROM: The Satires of Juvenal, A.D. 117, (117), NULL, Italy
• Bryan Malessa (1)
  • IN: The War Room (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Between 1820 and 1996, 7.1 million Germans immigrated to the United States -- more than from any other nation. The desire to forget an often painful past, honesty and thoroughness, a practical bent -- many Germans shares these qualities, and they have made absorption easier.
    FROM: The New York Times, (1999), Article, US
• Bruce McCabe (3)
  • IN: Skinjob (2014) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: SANTA CLARA, California -- Applied Biometric Instruments Inc. is pleased to announce that the Police Nationale, France's principal national law enforcement agency, has adopted the Handheld Multimodal Detection Array (HAMDA) as its standard field polygraph device. The first 750 units will be delivered in March. US trials are underway.
    FROM: Press Release, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Ken MacLeod (1)
  • IN: The Restoration Game (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Exploit (online gaming) In the realm of online games, an exploit is usually a software bug, hack, or bot that contributes to the user's prosperity in a manner not intended by the developers.
    FROM: Wikipedia, (2008), Definition, NULL
• Lijia Zhang (1)
  • IN: Lotus (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In Nature, there are unexpected storms, and in Life Unpredictable Vicissitudes
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Paul McDonald (1)
  • IN: Do I Love You? (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: love (n). 1. very strong affection. 2. very strong affection and sexual attraction. 3. great liking. 4. a person or thing that you love. 5. a score of zero.
    FROM: Oxford English Mini Dictionary, (1981), Definition, NULL
• Colin MacKinnon (1)
  • IN: Morning Spy, Evening Spy (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The mind-set is, when one of your guys is popped and you know who did it, you go after them. Nobody [in Washington] ever has to hear about it. No memos, no signatures. Nothing ever goes into the files...You just do it or you find somebody else to do it.
    FROM: American counterintelligence source, (None), [NA], US
• D. R. MacDonald (1)
  • IN: The Ice Bridge (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tri mithean a thig gun iarraidh -- gaol, eagal agus eud (Three things that come without being asked -- love, fear, and jealousy.)
    FROM: Gaelic Saying, (None), Saying, Ireland
• Grace McCleen (1)
  • IN: The Offering (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Lethe: a river in Hades whose water, when drunk, made the souls of the dead forget their life on earth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jennifer McCartney (1)
  • IN: Afloat (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Lehi M Usage: Biblical, Mormon From an Old Testament place name meaning "jawbone" in Hebrew. It is also used in the Books of Mormon as the name of a prophet.
    FROM: The Utah Baby Namer, (1838), NULL, US
• Wayne Macauley (2)
  • IN: Blueprints for a Barbed Wire Cannoe (2004) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Brickwork of Ur, bitter is the wail, The wait set up for you! ... O my flooded, washed away, brickwork of Ur!
    FROM: Ancient Sumerian Poem, (None), Poem, Iraq
  • IN: Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Brickwork of Ur, bitter is the wail, The wail set up for you! ... O my flooded, washed away, brickwork of Ur!
    FROM: From an Ancient Sumerian Poem, (None), Poem, Iraq
• Michelle Lovric (1)
  • IN: Carnevale (2001) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: La fame fa far dei salti, ma l'amor li fa far piu alti. (Hunger makes you jump, but love makes you jump higher.)
    FROM: Venetian proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
• Daniel Lowe (1)
  • IN: All that's Left to Tell (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I was alive I was dust which was, But now I am dust in dust I am dust which never was.
    FROM: The Arabian Nights, (1775), Book, Middle East
• Kelly Luce (1)
  • IN: Pull Me Under (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On a cloudless afternoon in the peaceful Shikoku city of Tokushima, twelve-year-old Chizuru Akitani, Japanese-American daughter of acclaimed violinist and Living National Treasure Hiro Akitani, walked into the staff room at Motomachi Elementary, covered with blood and clutching a letter opener. Panic swept the room, as people assumed the sixth-grader, known for her introspective nature, had seriously hurt herself. The English teacher, Ms. Daniela Townshend, was the first to approach Chizuru. As she neared, the girl raised her palm and still the room with five words: "This is not my blood."
    FROM: Excerpt, Kyoto Wow!, (1988), Magazine, Japan
• Jack London (1)
  • IN: Tales of the Pacific (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The coral waxes, the palm grows, but man departs.
    FROM: Tahitian proverb, (None), Proverb, Tahiti, French Polynesia
• Hong Liu (1)
  • IN: The Magpie Bridge (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If the affections are mutual and everlasting, does it matter that they cannot be together in everyday life?
    FROM: The Magpie Bridge, (None), [NA], China
• Ron Liebman (3)
  • IN: Big Law (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Size matters.
    FROM: Anonymous, (None), [NA], NULL
• Nicolai Lilin (4)
  • IN: Siberian Education (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Some enjoy life, some suffer it; we fight it.
    FROM: Old Saying of the Siberian Urkas, (None), Saying, Siberia
  • IN: Sniper (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Having a prostitute for a daughter brings a family less dishonor than a soldier for a son.
    FROM: Old Russian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Russia
• Donna Leon (2)
  • IN: Acqua Alta (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dalla sua pace la mia dipende, quel che a lei piace vita mi rende, quel che le incresce morte mi da. S'ella sospira, sospiro anch'io, e mia quell'ira, quel pianto e mio e non ho bene s'ella non l'ha. My peace depends upon hers: what pleases her gives me life, that which pains her gives me death. If she sighs, I will sigh as well, her anger and her sorrows are mine and I have no joy unless she shares it.
    FROM: Don Giovanni, (1788), Opera, Italy
  • IN: Drawing Conclusions (2011) Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the name of God Amen. I George Frederick Handel considering the uncertainties of human life doe make this my will in manner following…
    FROM: Last testament of George Frederick Handel, (1759), Speech, Germany
• Brian Freeman (1)
  • IN: Spilled Blood (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: TO THE ATTENTION OF MR. FLORIAN STEELE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF MONDAMIN RESEARCH I KNOW YOUR SINS YOU SACRIFICE THE INNOCENT YOU SEVER FAMILIES WITH YOUR EVIL YOU BELIEVE YOURSELF A GIANT IN THE EARTH BUT YOUR HEART IS FILLED WITH VIOLENCE AND CORRUPTION NOW RETRIBUTION IS COMING DESTRUCTION WILL RAIN DOWN ON ALL THAT YOU HAVE CREATED NO ONE WILL BE SPARED I AM A TORRENT WITHOUT MERCY I AM THE VENGEANCE OF GOD MY NAME IS AQUARIUS
    FROM: NULL, (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Iain Banks (4)
  • IN: Canal Dreams (1989) Novel, Fiction, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: demurrage n. Rate or amount payable to shipowner by charterer for failure to load or discharge ship within time allowed; similar charge on railway trucks or goods; such detention, delay. [f. OF demo(u)rage (demorer, as DEMUR see — AGE)]
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Use of Weapons (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Slight Mechanical Destruction' Zakalwe enfranchised;_Those lazy curls of smoke above the city,_Black wormholes in the air of noontime's bright Ground Zero._Did they tell you what you wanted to be told?_Or rain-skinned on a concrete fastness,_Fortress island in the flood;_You walked amongst the smashed machines,_And looked through undrugged eyes_For engines of another war,_And an attrition of the soul and the device._With craft and plane and ship,_And gun and drone and field you played, and_Wrote an allegory of your regress_In other people's tears and blood;_The tentative poetics of your rise_From a mere and shoddy grace._And those who found you,_Took, remade you_('Hey, my boy, it's you and us knife missiles now,_Our lunge and speed and bloody secret: _The way to a man's heart is through his chest! )_- They thought you were their plaything,_Savage child; the throwback from wayback_Expedient because_Utopia spawns few warriors._But you knew your figure cut a cipher_Through every crafted plan,_And playing our game for real_Saw through our plumbing jobs_And wayward glands_To a meaning of your own, in bones._- The catchment of these cultured lives_Was not in flesh,_And what we only knew,_You felt,_With all the marrow of your twisted cells.__ Rasd-Coduresa Diziet Embless Sma da" Marenhide. c/o SC, Year 115 (Earth, Khmer calendar).
    FROM: Marain original, own translation. Unpublished., (1990), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Complicity (1993) Novel, Fiction, Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Neil and Patterson, James McMahon (1)
  • IN: Toy (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Extinction: Many species have become extinct because of human destruction of their natural environments. Indeed, current rates of human-induced extinctions are estimated to be about 1,000 times greater than past natural rates of extinction, leading some scientists to call modern times the sixth mass extinction.
    FROM: Encyclopedia Britannica, (None), Book, NULL
• Neil McMahon (1)
  • IN: Toy (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: TOY A material object for children or others to play with (often an imitation of some familiar object); a plaything; also, something contrived for amusement rather than for practical use.
    FROM: The Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, NULL
• Timothy Hallinan (1)
  • IN: Everything but the Squeal (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, the little chickie hollered, And the little chickie begged, And they poured hot water Up and down his leg. …
    FROM: Traditional American children's song, (None), Song, US
• Vincent Zandri (1)
  • IN: The Remains (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Three little kittens they lost their mittens, and they began to cry. ‘Oh mother dear, we sadly fear that we have lost our mittens.’ ‘What! Lost your mittens, you naughty kittens! Then you shall have no pie.’”
    FROM: Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme, (1843), NULL, NULL
• Julia Spencer-Fleming (2)
  • IN: All Mortal Flesh (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let all mortal flesh keep silence, And with fear and trembling stand; Ponder nothing earthly-minded, For with blessing in his hand Christ our God to earth descendeth, Our full homage to demand. King of kings, yet born of Mary, As of old on earth he stood, Lord of lords in human vesture, In the Body and the Blood, He will give to all the faithful His own self for heavenly food. Rank on rank the host of heaven Spreads its vanguard on the way, As the Light of Light descendeth From the realms of endless day, That the powers of hell may vanish As the darkness clears away. At his feet the six-winged seraph; Cherubim with sleepless eye, Veil their faces to the Presence, As with ceaseless voice they cry: “Alleluia, alleluia! Alleluia, Lord Most High!”
    FROM: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence – Liturgy of St. James; para. by Gerard Moultrie The Hymnal, 1982, The Church Publishing Company, (1982), NULL, NULL
  • IN: One Was a Soldier (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I BELIEVE IN… THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS…
    FROM: The Apostles’ Creed, The Book of Common Prayer, (1662), Religious Text, NULL
• Anonymous (1)
  • IN: Virtue Rewarded; or the Irish Princess (1693) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: She ne're from Courts, yet Courts could have undone with untaught Looks, and an unpractised Heart; Her Nets, the moft prepar'd, could never than, For Nature spread them in the fear of Art.
    FROM: Gond. lib. 2, Cant 7, (None), NULL, NULL
• Giulio Leoni (1)
  • IN: The Kingdom Light (2005) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Si probitas, sensus, virtutum gratia, census, nobilitas orti possint resistere morti, non foret extintus Federicus, qui iacet intus. (If probity, reason, abundance of virtue, nobility of birth, could prevent death, Frederick, who lies here, would not have died.)
    FROM: Inscription on Frederick's tomb, (None), Inscription, UK
• Allison Leotta (2)
  • IN: A Good Killing (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves.
    FROM: Italian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
  • IN: Speak of the Devil (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, is the world's most dangerous gang.
    FROM: National Geographic Explorer's words, (None), Conversation, US
• Nikolai Leskov (1)
  • IN: The Enchanted Wanderer (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The first song brings a blush to the cheek.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, NULL
• Ira Levin (1)
  • IN: This Perfect Day (1970) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Christ, Marx, Wood, and Wei Led us to this perfect day. Marx, Wood, Wei and Christ; All but Wei were sacrificed. Gave us lovely schools and parks. Wei, Christ, Marx, and Wood Made us humble, made us good.
    FROM: child's rhyme for bouncing a ball, (1970), Song, NULL
• Jeffrey Lee (1)
  • IN: Dogdays (2002) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Dog Days (Dies Canicularis) (i) Period of the year when the sun rises wih the Dog Star, Sirius. Traditionally period of the year when dogs are susceptible to rabies. (ii) Days of unwholesome heat, season of sickness, madness and malign influences. In modern almanacs reckoned between 3rd July and 11th August.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Richard Montanari (1)
  • IN: Kiss Of Evil (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Kes lusigaga alustab, see kulbiga lobetab, Kes kulbiga alustab, see lusigaga lobetab.
    FROM: Estonian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Estonia
• Peter Guttridge (1)
  • IN: The Thing Itself (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘To Brighton, to Brighton, Where they do such things, And they say such things, In Brighton, in Brighton, I’ll never go there anymore.’
    FROM: Music Hall Song, (None), Song, NULL
• Phil Rickman (4)
  • IN: The Chalice (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I had received serious injury from someone who, at considerable cost to myself, I had disinterestedly helped, and I was sorely tempted to retaliate…
    FROM: Dion Fortune Psychic Self-Defence (1930), (1930), Book, UK
  • IN: A Crown of Lights (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Goddess worshippers… are particularly concerned with creativity, intuition, compassion, beauty and cooperation. They see nature as the outward and visible expression of the divine, through which the goddess may be contacted. They have therefore more to do with ecology and conservationism than with orgies and are often gentle worshippers of the good in nature.
    FROM: Deliverance (ed. Michael Perry), The Christian Deliverance Study Group, (1987), Book, NULL
  • IN: The Wine of Angels (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tears are the Wine of Angels ... the best ... to quench the devil’s fires.
    FROM: from a seventeenth-century meditation attributed to Thomas Traherne, (1650), [NA], UK
  • IN: The Fabric of Sin (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Shapen of clay and kneaded with water A bedrock of shame and a source of pollution A cauldron of iniquity and a fabric of sin … What can I say that hath not been foreknown Or what disclose that hath not been foretold?
    FROM: The Essenes: Poems of Initiation, (None), Book, NULL
• Jo Nesbo (1)
  • IN: The Son (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And he will come again to judge the living and the dead
    FROM: The Apostles' Creed, (390), Religious Text, Italy
• Michael Robotham (1)
  • IN: Lost (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Wealth lost, something lost; Honor lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost.
    FROM: German Proverb, (None), Proverb, Germany
• John Varley (1)
  • IN: Mammoth (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He was a very good man who led a good life and raised two good daughters, and me. He hated the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the New York Yankees, and the Texas A&M Aggies, and loved most other Texas teams. He lived to see the Red Sox humiliate the Yankees, and a lot of people didn't.
    FROM: Little Fuzzy, A child of the ice age, (None), NULL, NULL
• Simon Lelic (2)
  • IN: Rupture (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: rupture [noun]: an instance of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: A Thousand Cuts (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: rupture [noun]: an instance of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: The Crocodile (1865) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Ohé Lambert! Où est Lambert? As-tu vu Lambert
    FROM: A popular French saying, (1850), NULL, France
• Jill Essbaum (1)
  • IN: Hausfrau (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the morning skies grow red and oér their radiance shed, Thou, O Lord, appeareth in their light. When the Alps glow bright with splendour, Pray to God, to Him surrender, For you feel and understand, That he dwelleth in this land, That he dwelleth in this land
    FROM: Schweizerpsalm, (1841), The Swiss National Anthem, Switzerland
• Ford Madox Ford (1)
  • IN: The Good Soldier (1915) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Beati Immaculati
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Europe
• Laurence Cosse (1)
  • IN: An Accident in August (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: On the thirty-first of the month of August To leeward we did espy A frigate from England Cleaving through the waves and sea (…)
    FROM: French Mariner's Song, (None), Song, France
• Herman Wouk (1)
  • IN: Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Well they gave him his orders in Munroe, Virginia Saying “Steve, you’re way behind time It’s not 38, this is Old 97 You must bring her to Spencer on time.” . . . He was goin’ down the grade doing 90 miles an hour When the whistle broke into a scream He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle He was scalded to death by the steam . . .
    FROM: The Wreck of Old '97, (1998), Song, US
• Isabel Wolff (1)
  • IN: Forget Me Not (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Show me your garden, and I shall tell you what you are.
    FROM: Chinese proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Ben H. Winters (1)
  • IN: Underground Airlines (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No future amendment of the Constitution shall affect the five preceding articles...and no amendment shall be made to the Constitution which shall authorize or give to Congress any power to abolish or interfere with slavery in any of the States by whose laws it is, or may be, allowed or permitted.
    FROM: Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, (1919), NULL, US
• Lori Wilde (5)
  • IN: Somebody to Love (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Flake: To remove a stone fragment from a core or tool.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: All Out of Love (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Inflorescence: a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a main stem.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Welcome Home Garden Club (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Traditional meaning of hibiscus—delicate beauty.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• JJ Amaworo Wilson (1)
  • IN: Damnificados (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You’d better get a home in that rock, don’t you see. You’d better get a home in that rock, don’t you see. Between the earth and sky, thought I heard my savior cry, You’d better get a home in that rock, don’t you see. God gave Noah the rainbow sign, don’t you see. God gave Noah the rainbow sign, don’t you see. God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water but fire next time. You’d better get a home in that rock, don’t you see. Poor man Lazarus, poor as I, don’t you see. Poor man Lazarus, poor as I, don’t you see. Poor man Lazarus, poor as I, when he died he had a home on high. You’d better get a home in that rock, don’t you see. Rich man Dives lived so well, don’t you see. Rich man Dives lived so well, don’t you see. Rich man Dives lived so well, when he died he had a home in Hell. You’d better get a home in that rock, don’t you see.
    FROM: Negro Spiritual, (None), Song, US
• Adam Wilson (1)
  • IN: Flatscreen (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Hold steady.
    FROM: The Hold Steady, (None), NULL, NULL
• Randy Wayne White (4)
  • IN: Mangrove Lightning (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Your office sent bones in cloth bags. These bags have rotted and caused much chaos. When people came to claim them, it was not possible to identify individual sets correctly. Our hearts have no peace.
    FROM: A letter from Tung Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, to the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association regarding the repatriation of Chinese dead, San Francisco, (1928), Letter, Hong Kong
  • IN: Bone Deep (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Florida archaeologists . . . found a mastodon tusk, scarred by circular cut marks from a knife. The tusk was 14,500 years old. The age was surprising, even shocking, for it suddenly made the Aucilla [Florida] sinkhole one of the earliest places in the Americas to betray the presence of human beings.
    FROM: Smithsonian Magazine, (2013), Article, US
  • IN: Tampa Burn (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God, why’d you send me down here with a trigger finger and a tallywhacker, if you didn’t expect me to use ’em?
    FROM: Tucker Gatrell, (2005), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Black Widow (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For a great bachelorette party, try planning a weekend getaway at a spa or tropical resort. Get pampered, go sightseeing, dance with dashing foreign men who don’t speak English. Pack a survival kit . . . including a disposable camera. The pictures you take at the bachelorette party will come in handy when you need to blackmail the bride later!
    FROM: Advice to Maids of Honour www.foreverwed1.com, (2008), Fictional, NULL
• le Carre, John (1)
  • IN: Single & Single (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Human blood is a commodity.
    FROM: US Federal Trade Commission, (1966), [NA], US
• Chuck Wendig (2)
  • IN: Double Dead (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Double dead : adj. Meat that comes from an animal that has died of disease. Does not pass the necessary sanitary standards.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Invasive (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: formication (n) 1. the sensation that ants or other insects are crawling on one’s skin.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Phaedra Weldon (1)
  • IN: Phantasm (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Is this what you want? Will this make you happy? So Be It.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ward Larsen (1)
  • IN: Fly By Wire (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fly-by-wire \ˈflī-bī-ˌwī(-ə)r\ adjective, (1968): of, relating to, being, or utilizing a flight-control system in which controls are operated electrically rather than mechanically.
    FROM: Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary, (2003), Dictionary definition, NULL
• David Lat (1)
  • IN: Supreme Ambitions (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights.
    FROM: All About Eve, (1950), Film, US
• Amara Lakhous (4)
  • IN: Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I am a southerner, married, with a child a few months old. I ask no favors, only an apartment to rent, and I can give the highest guarantee of payment. I buy La Stampa every day, and I read with pleasure some article or item of news, good or bad, and finally my gaze falls on the classified ads. Even though I bombard the advertisers with telephone calls all day, starting early in the morning, I always find the line busy, and if someone should happen to answer, the first question I get is the following: "You're a southerner? I'm sorry, I can't." Or other responses too repellent to repeat, or perhaps, "Our rooms are quiet, and we don't want the disturbances that children cause." Since I don't have the privilege of at least explaining myself, and since as soon as I'm identified as southerner the excuse of the children comes up, I would like to address a few words to these people who are more civilized than me: I am and feel myself a Christian, and so I believe that all of us in the world are children of God. In all the nations of the world, without distinction between north and south, there are good people and bad, with children and without children. I personally deplore these ways of thinking: How can we celebrate the Centenary of Italian Unification with such feelings?
    FROM: La Stampa, (1961), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A wise man laughs when he can. He knows very well that there will be much to cry about in life.
    FROM: Roma Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Mandla Langa (1)
  • IN: The Lost Colours of the Chameleon (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We'll walk you through every step of the way.
    FROM: A soldier accompanying a condemned man to a firing squad, (None), NULL, NULL
• Shane Kuhn (1)
  • IN: The Intern's Handbook (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Interns are invisible. You can tell executives your name a hundred times and they will never remember it because they have no respect for someone at the bottom of the barrel, working for free. The irony is that they will heap important duties on you with total abandon. The more of these duties you voluntarily accept, the more you will get, simultaneously acquiring TRUST AND ACCESS. Ultimately, your target will trust you with his life and that is when you will take it.
    FROM: The Intern's Handbook, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Alex Gray (1)
  • IN: The Bird that Did Not Sing (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: This is the bird that never flew This is the tree that never grew This is the bell that never sang This is the fish that never swam
    FROM: Legend of the Glasgow Coat of Arms, (None), Poem, UK
• Ann Granger (1)
  • IN: The Dead Woman of Deptford (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: … the very existence of London depends on the navigation of the Thames, insomuch that if this river were rendered unavigable, London would soon become a heap of ruins, like nineveh and Babylon…
    FROM: The Picture of London for 1818, (1918), Book, UK
• James Howard Kunstler (1)
  • IN: World Made By Hand (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I am a pilgrim and a stranger Traveling through this wearisome land I've got a home in that yonder city And it's not (good Lord it's not) not made by hand
    FROM: American gospel song, (None), Religious Text, US
• Deborah Copaken Kogan (1)
  • IN: The Red Book (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and present. You know what I mean? It's awfully difficult.
    FROM: Grey Gardens, (1975), Film, US
• Mario Reading (1)
  • IN: The Mayan Codex (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Eat, eat, while you still have bread Drink, drink, while you still have water A day will come when dust will possess the earth And the face of the world will be blighted On that day a cloud will rise On that day a mountain will be lifted up On that day a strong man will seize the land On that day things will fall to ruin On that day the tender leaf will be destroyed On that day dying eyes will close On that day there will be three signs seen on a tree On that day three generations of men will hang there On that day the battle flag will be raised And the people will be scattered in the forests.
    FROM: From The Nine Books Of Chilam Balam Translated by the author, (None), Book, Ancient Maya
• David Gibbins (2)
  • IN: Atlantis (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A mighty empire once ruled the larger part of the world. Its rulers lived in a vast citadel, up against the sea, a great maze of corridors like nothing seen since. They were ingenious workers in gold and ivory and fearless bullfighters. But then, for defying Poseidon the Sea God, in one mighty deluge the citadel was swallowed beneath the waves, its people never to be seen again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Pyramid (None) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Omens of fire in the chariots’ wind, Pillars of fire in thunder and storm
    FROM: Yannai, possibly c. seventh century AD (a Hebrew poem in the Cairo Geniza, about the Book of Exodus), (650), Poem, NULL
• Reggie Nadelson (1)
  • IN: Blood Count (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Until last week the Red Cross, acting on orders from the services, refused to accept blood from Negro donors, although there is no physiologic difference between Negro and white blood plasma. Negroes, proud of Dr. Charles R. Drew who headed the Blood for Britain service, protested. Negro blood donations are now accepted, but the plasma will be segregated for exclusive use of Negro casualties.
    FROM: Time, February 2, 1942, (1942), Article, NULL
• Susan Fraser King (1)
  • IN: Lady Macbeth (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Machbet filius Finlach... et Gruoch filia Bodhe, Rex et Regina Scotorum... (Macbeth son of Finlach... and Gruoch, daughter of Bodhe, King and Queen of Scots...)
    FROM: Cartularium of the Priory of Saint Andrews, (1049), NULL, UK
• Katrina Kittle (1)
  • IN: The Kindness of Strangers (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beside a well, one does not thirst. Beside a sister, one does not despair.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Daša Drndić (1)
  • IN: Belladonna (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: hodie mihi, cras tibi Quis evadet?
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Laleh Khadivi (1)
  • IN: The Age of Orphans (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.
    FROM: Kurdish Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Sue Monk Kidd (1)
  • IN: The Secret Life of Bees (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.
    FROM: Man and Insects, (None), NULL, NULL
• Raymond Kennedy (1)
  • IN: Ride a Cockhorse (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross To see a fine lady on a white horse. With rings on her finges and bells on her toes, She shall have music whereever she goes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Kathleen Kent (1)
  • IN: The Dime (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A patient woman can roast an ox with a lantern.
    FROM: Chinese proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Hannah Kent (1)
  • IN: Burial Rites (2013) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: I was worst to the one I loved best.
    FROM: Laxdela Saga, (1250), Book, Icelander
• Ken Kesey (2)
  • IN: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...one flew east, one flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest
    FROM: children folk rhyme, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: Demon Box (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: TARNISHED GALAHAD ... what the judge called him at his trial --written later, on the run, in Mexico: Down to five pesos from five thousand dollars Down to the dregs from the lip-smacking foam Down to a dopefiend from a prizewinning scholar Down to the bush from a civilized home. What people once called a promising talent What used to be known as an upstanding lad Now hounded and hunted by the law of two countries And judged to be only a Tarnished Galahad. Tarnished Galahad--did your sword get rusted? Tarnished Galahad--there's no better name! Keep running and hiding 'til the next time you're busted And locked away to suffer your guilt, and shame.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Elizabeth Kelly (1)
  • IN: The Last Summer of the Camper-downs (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I do not wish to live like a baptized person, I wish to live like a dog of the wood.
    FROM: Old Roman Saying, (None), Saying, Italy
• Deborah E. Kennedy (1)
  • IN: Tornado Weather (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars.
    FROM: Japanese Proverb, (None), Proverb, Japan
• Ismail Kadare (1)
  • IN: Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (2000) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: They were really flowers But March was gone Or else it was March But the flowers were not real
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Dan Kavanagh (1)
  • IN: Putting the Boot in (1985) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I had the wings of a sparrow, If I had the arse of a crow, I'd fly over Tottenham tomorrow, And shit on the bastards below.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Song, UK
• Thomas Love Peacock (3)
  • IN: Headlong Hall (1816) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All philosophers, who find Some favourite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Unlooked-for good betides us still. And unanticipated ill : Blind Fortune rules the hours that roll : Then fill with good old wine the bowl.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Crochet Castle (1831) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Le monde est plein de ſoùs, et qui ù'en vas pas voir, Doit se tenir tout seul, et casser son miroir,
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Horace Smith (1)
  • IN: The Tor Hill (1826) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Pugnacious, stern, arm'd cap-a-pie, The paragon of chivalry, His spirit dances To hear the trumpet's battling sound, And bid his steel-clad charger bound Amid the lances.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Jon Kalman Stefansson (1)
  • IN: Fish have no feet (2013) Fiction, Icelandic
    EPIGRAPH: Keflavik doesn't exist.
    FROM: Iceland, (None), NULL, Iceland
• Cynan Jones (1)
  • IN: Cove (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Cove (keuv) n. a small bay or inlet; a sheltered place. Cove (keuv) n. a fellow; a man.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Wendy Jones (1)
  • IN: The thoughts and happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of Superior Funerals (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And he saw a tall tree by the side of the river, one half of which was on fire, from the root to the top, and the other half was green and in full leaf.
    FROM: The Mabinogion, (1050), NULL, UK
• Pia Juul (1)
  • IN: The Murder of Halland (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: May they come together, happy in heart forever, who long to be as one!
    FROM: Swedish Ballad, (None), Poem, Sweden
• Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (1)
  • IN: Martyrdom Street (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: From the shrines of Parsa rise the dust of ages and the murmurs of hidden faces. In this hall of wanderers, where winds swallow their whispers, Parsa's martyrs and prophets scorn the long shadows cast upon the royal gateway fearing the day when the earth shall tremble and the hidden shall unveil their faces, rising against tyranny.
    FROM: Martyrs and Prophets, (None), NULL, NULL
• Pam Jenoff (1)
  • IN: A Hidden Affair (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In water one sees one's own face; but in wine one beholds the heart of another.
    FROM: French proverb, (None), Proverb, France
• Jane Johnson (1)
  • IN: The Salt Road (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Salt is the soul of the desert.
    FROM: Sahrawi proverb, (None), Proverb, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
• Eliza Parsons (5)
  • IN: The Convict (1807) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And, Oh! in whatever garb misfortune approaches my door, may humanity be in waiting, ready to lift the latch, and giva har comfort!
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Murray House: "A Plain Unvarnished Tale." (1804) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Good judges are as rare as good authors, and 'tis as difficult to find judgment in one as genius in the other; therefore, in weighing the merit of any performance, let liberality turn the balance in favour of the good intention.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Peasant of Ardenne Forest (1801) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hereditary honour In worldly estimation Is accounted the most noble ; but reason and sound judgment speaketh in favour of him who hath acquired distinction by his merit ; for 'tis virtue, and not birtb, which maketh men truly noble :— And poor is his boast, who is compelled to borrow his claims to respect from a loiuj list of titled ancestors.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Amelia Alderson Opie (2)
  • IN: Temper, Or, Domestic Scenes (1812) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A horse not broken becometh headstrong, and a child left to himself will be wilful.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Madeline (1822) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are denied, And pleased with favours given; This, this alone is wisdom's part, This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to Heaven.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Francis Lathom (1)
  • IN: Human Beings (1807) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Such things are.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Lady Morgan Sydney (4)
  • IN: The Wild Irish Girl (1808) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Questa gente bench; mostra selvagea E pur gli monte la contrada accierba Nondimeno Ve dolce ad cui i'assagia.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
  • IN: Italy (1821) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Malheur au bon esprit clout la pensee altiere D'un cceur independant s'elance tout entiire, Qui respire un air libre, et jamais n'applaudit, Au despotisme en voffue, a 1'erreur en credit. Mais ferine dans ma route, et rrai dans mes discours, Teljefus, — telje auis, — tel je serai toujours.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
  • IN: Passages from My Autobiography (1859) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lest auld acquaintance be forgot.
    FROM: Old Scotch Song, (None), NULL, UK
  • IN: The Mohawks (1822) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Stagyrite's dull rules in vain were made, Since critics now give judgment-as they're paid. Our self-denying saints with truth make bold, And prize all doctrines only-as they're sold. While Justice* self leams lightly on the scribe, Who libels—om the right side-for a bribe.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Matthew Gregory Lewis (2)
  • IN: Ambrosio (1800) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power, Witches, and ghoſts who rove at midnight hour.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Castle of Lindenberg (1820) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Raymond, Raymond, I am thine, Raymond, Raymond, thou art mine; When the turret clock strikes one, Expect to see the Bleeding Nun.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Norris Brewer (1)
  • IN: The Beauties of Ireland (1825) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Through the land the musing pilgrim sees A track of brightest green, and in the midst Appears a mould'ring wall, with ivy crown'd; Or Gothic turret, pride of antient days: Sea, mountain, lovely vale, and rushing stream, Combine, in charms pictorial.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Rona Jaffe (1)
  • IN: The Best of Everything (1958) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: YOU DESERVE THE BEST OF EVERYTHING The best job, the best surroundings, the best pay, the best contacts.
    FROM: ad in The New York Times, (None), NULL, US
• Sok-yong Hwang (1)
  • IN: Princess Bari (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Many small stars fill the blue sky, and many worries fill our lives.
    FROM: Jindo Arirang, (None), Song, Korea
• Jung-eun Hwang (1)
  • IN: One Hundred Shadows (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Yeowoo-bi In common with many other cultures, Koreans refer to a sunhower using this lovely epithet -- the meteorological phenomenon of rain while the sun shines apparently indicating the wedding of a fox. The fox's partner varies around the world; in Korea, the marriage is either between a tiger groom and a fox bride. The Korean kumiho (lit. 'nine-tailed fox') shares many similarities with the Chinese huli jing and Japanese kitsune, though while these latter are often depicted as morally ambiguous, the kumiho is almost always malignant. Using a literal translation rather than the more prosaic 'sunshower' seemed appropriate for the eerie, shape-shifting nature of this darkly modern fairy tale.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ron Irwin (2)
  • IN: Flat Water Tuesday (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Fenton School reserves a limited number of places for students who wish to take a postgraduate year in a boarding school environment. A postgraduate year of study at Fenton is a repeated senior year of high school that offers, in many cases, more rigor and discipline than the avergae student has become accustomed to at home. Postgraduate students at Fenton are often attracted to our extensive sports program, and each year they play important roles on our varsity football, hockey and rowing teams. The postgraduate student receives a certificate of attendance upon successful completion of their year at the Fenton School. Extensive finiancial aid is granted to PG candidates on a needs basis.
    FROM: The Fenton School Handbook, (2013), Book, US
• Christopher Hope (2)
  • IN: The Garden of Bad Dreams (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
    FROM: Old English proverb, (None), Proverb, UK
  • IN: My Mother's Lovers (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Wapiganapo tembo nyasi huumia.' 'When elephants fight the grass gets hurt.'
    FROM: Swahili Proverb, (None), Proverb, Swahili
• Ellen Hopkins (1)
  • IN: Love Lies Beneath (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's Said That every soul enters this world an immaculate slate. awaiting the imprint of parent and teacher, the scribbling of providence. But no truth is absolute. More often than supposed, a mind is born defective, hairline fractures spidering the native psyche, flaws invisible to the eye. Some cracks can't be mortared.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, NULL
• Ellen Herrick (1)
  • IN: The Forbidden Garden (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hiraeth (n.) a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was: the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Hassman,Tupelo (1)
  • IN: Girlchild (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On my honor, I will try: To do my duty to God and my country, To help other people at all times, To obey the Girl Scout Laws.
    FROM: The Girl Scout Promise, (None), [NA], US
• Allan Gurganus (1)
  • IN: Local Souls (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: French provincial towns are about like what your hometown was when your father was a boy, before movies, the radio and the family car changed all that. Your father wasn't bored. Neither are the provincial French.
    FROM: Instructions for American servicemen in France, World War II, issued by the U. S. Army, (1944), Book, US
• Benjamin Hale (1)
  • IN: The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You'll see it's true, an ape like me can learn to be human too.
    FROM: "I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)," Disney's The Jungle Book Film, (1967), Song, US
• Jean-Michel Guenassia (1)
  • IN: The Incorrigible Optimists Club (2011) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Club: Klub/noun; a place at which one meets for social, political, athletic or other ends. [Middle English]
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Laurent Guillaume (2)
  • IN: White Leopard (2013) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: It's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
    FROM: Popular police saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Matthew Guinn (1)
  • IN: The Resurrectionist (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: resurrectionist n. (a) Hist. A body-snatcher; a resurrection man; (b) gen. a person who resurrects something (lit & fig): (c) a believer in resurrection fernyear n. & adv. (a) Obsc. A past year, olden times
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Giovanni Guareschi (1)
  • IN: The Complete Little World of Don Camillo (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: This is how they told it to me.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Henry Green (1)
  • IN: Living (1929) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As these birds would go where so where would this child go?
    FROM: NULL, (1929), Fictional, NULL
• Craig Dilouie (1)
  • IN: Suffer the Children (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The good mother knows what her children will eat.
    FROM: Akan Proverb, (None), Proverb, Ghana
• Helen Benedict (1)
  • IN: The Edge of Eden (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tell me whom you love and I'll tell you who you are.
    FROM: Seychellois Proverb, (None), Proverb, Seychelles
• Jamal Mahjoub (2)
  • IN: The Burning Gates (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The world grows dark, The shadows have spread over it, Now is the glimmer of the dusk.
    FROM: The Epic of Gilgamesh, (-1800), Poem, Iraq/ Kuwait
  • IN: City of Jackals (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Anubi's heart is happy over the work of his hands and the heart of the Lord of the Divine Hall is thrilled when he beholds this good god, Master of those that have been and Ruler over those that are to come.
    FROM: Coffin Texts no. 197, (None), [NA], Egypt
• Michal Govrin (1)
  • IN: Hold On to the Sun (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Won't you see that I am carried to you on a sea of death Not on the Styx -- that noble river in a marble infereno No Charon poles the raft On my cheeks still lie the curls of the brother In whose death I live His breath is the wind in my hair Won't you hear, in our throats' echoes, the silence The cry that does not relent, does not release -- Of the heads From whose number a hand was left To knead our lives Won't you see Lining up behind our face The trains that have carried us On a journey ordained from then and there Their whistle is our canopy A pillar of smoke leading us To the far ends of the wind.
    FROM: Won't You See, (None), NULL, NULL
• Genevieve Graham (1)
  • IN: Promises to Keep (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We are upon a great and noble Scheme of sending the neutral French out of this Province, who have always been secret Enemies, and have encouraged our Savages to cut our throats. If we effect their Expulsion, it will be one of the greatest Things that ever the English did in America; for by all accounts, that Part of the Country they possess is as good Land as any in the World: In case, therefore, we could get some good English Farmers in their Room, this Province would abound with all kinds of Provisions.
    FROM: News dispatch from Nova Scotia, printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette, (1755), Article, US
• Frances McNeil (1)
  • IN: A Death in Dales (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The hear may be displaced from birht. I have seen a case in which it lay upon the right side, and had always been in that position. Its action was natural. A variety of causes may tend to push it out of its place.
    FROM: Virtue's Household Physician, Volume I, (1925), Book, NULL
• Kerry Greenwood (1)
  • IN: Queen of the Flowers (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Le bon Papa est capable du tut (the good father is capable of anything).
    FROM: French Proverb, (None), Proverb, France
• Rawi Hage (1)
  • IN: Cockroach (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The Satavaesa makes those waters flow down to the seven karshvares of the earth, and when he has arrived down there, he stands, beautiful, spreading ease and joy on the fertile countries.
    FROM: Avesta, The Ancient Scriptures of Zoroastrianism, (650), Religious Text, NULL
• Chad Harbach (1)
  • IN: The Art of Fielding (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So be cheery, my lads Let your hearts never fall While the bold Harpooner Is striking the ball.
    FROM: Westish College fight song, (2011), Fictional, US
• Tomas Gonzalez (1)
  • IN: In the Beginning Was the Sea (1983) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In the beginning was the sea. All was in darkness. There was neither sun nor moon; no people, no animals. no plants. The sea was everywhere and everything. The sea was the Mother. The Mother was neither woman, nor thing, nor nothingness. She was the spirit of that which was to come and she was thought and memory.
    FROM: Kogi Cosmology, (None), NULL, Colombia
• Dagoberto Gilb (1)
  • IN: Before the End, After the Beginning (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: morning, sun then night, the moon a wind blows, listen open a window, a door go on
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Andrea Gillies (1)
  • IN: The White Lie (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: white lie n. -- a trivial and well-intentioned untruth, designed to spare someone's feelings
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Lisa Genova (1)
  • IN: Inside the O'Briens (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
    FROM: The Gospel of Thomas, saying 70, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• John Spurling (1)
  • IN: The Ten Thousand Things (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The empire, long united, must divide, and long divided, must unite. Thus it has ever been.
    FROM: Three Kingdoms, (None), NULL, China
• Neal Stephenson (1)
  • IN: Crypto-Nomicon (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This morning [Imelda Marcos] offered the latest in a series of explanations of the billions of dollars that she and her husband, who died in 1989, are believed to have stolen during his presidency. "It so coincided that Marcos had money", she said. "After the Bretton Woods agreement he started buying gold fro Fort Knox. Three thousand tons, then 4,000 tons. I have documents for these: 7,000 tons. Marcos was so smart. He had it all. It's funny. America didn't understand him.
    FROM: The New York Times, (1996), Article, US
• Robert Charles Dallas (1)
  • IN: The new conspiracy against the Jesuits detected and briefly exposed (1815) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Omnes qui se Societati addixerunt, in virtutiyn solidarum ac per- fectarum, et spiritualium rerum studium incumbaiit.
    FROM: Institutum Soc. Jesu, ed. Praga, 1757, vol. ii, p. 72., (1757), [NA], NULL
• Alexandra Fuller (1)
  • IN: Quiet Until the Thaw (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life is a cricle and we as common people are created to stand within it and not on it. I am not just of the past but I am the past. I am here. I am now and I will be for tomorrow.
    FROM: Oglala Lakota maxim, (None), [NA], US
• Whitley Strieber (1)
  • IN: Hunters (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises. Much pain but still time. There is good out there. We oppose deception.
    FROM: Message in a crop formation found in a farm, (2002), NULL, UK
• Carsten Stroud (1)
  • IN: Niceville (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Come from the Four Winds, O Breath, And breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
    FROM: Monument to the Confederate Dead, (None), NULL, US
• Patrick Gale (1)
  • IN: The Cat Sanctuary (1990) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: His Integrity of Heart And distinguish'd Abilities (never prostituted to base purposes) Render'd Him at once, The Ornament of Society And the Delight of all who knew him.
    FROM: Memorial in Church of St Mary Magdalene, Lanceston, (None), Religious Text, US
• Julia Franck (1)
  • IN: Back to Back (2011) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: The cards Fall Luck falls From one To another On and over A face falls The eyes fall Under the table And over ... The players Shout And God Is silent Smiling to see that Now Clubs are trumps Luck falls Under the table And over And God Is silent And smiles Tormented At man falling From living by the cards To death by cards Silent Unyielding And over
    FROM: NULL, (1961), NULL, NULL
• Wendy Francis (1)
  • IN: Three Good Things (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Kringle (kring'gul): A butter-layered pastry, introduced to the States in the late 1800s by immigrant Danish bakers. In Denmark, the kringle is traditionally pretzel shaped. In America, it is typically oval shaped, with a fruit or nut filling.
    FROM: The Book of Kringle, (None), NULL, NULL
• Brian Freemantle (1)
  • IN: The Cloud Collector (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The mystery of how he [Osame bin Laden] kept in touch with his followers was at least partly solved yesterday by U. S. intelligence officials... to send an e-mail bin Laden would type a message on his computer, copy it to a flash drive and hand it to a courier who would then drive miles to a distant Internet café. The courier would then send the e-mail from the café, making it all but untraceable.
    FROM: Report of a CIA briefing on how Osama bin Laden controlled Al Qaeda from his Abbottabad, Pakistan, lair, London Times, (2011), Article, US
• Aaron Allston (1)
  • IN: Star Wars X-Wing Mercy Kill (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
    FROM: Star Wars Opening, (1977), Film, US
• Judith Allnat (1)
  • IN: The Moon Field (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No man's land is a place in the heart: pitted, cratered and empty as the moon...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Karin Fossum (1)
  • IN: The Caller (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It's a good thing there are lies Lord help us if everything that was said were true
    FROM: Old adage, (None), [NA], NULL
• Leah Fleming (1)
  • IN: The Postcard (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Remember before God those men and women of The European Resistance Movement who were secretly trained in Beaulieu to fight their lonely battle against Hitler's Germany and who before entering Nazi occupied territory, here found some measure of the peace for which they fought.
    FROM: From the plaque in the Cloisters of Beaulieu Abbey, (1969), NULL, NULL
• Katherine Ashe (1)
  • IN: I Loved A Rogue: The Prince Catchers (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Every person committing any of the offences herein-before mentioned, after having been convicted as an idle and disorderly person; every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of his Majesty’s subjects; every person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or outhouse, or in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in any cart or waggon... and not giving a good account of himself... shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond."
    FROM: Vagrancy Act of 1824, (1824), [NA], UK
• Belinda Bauer (1)
  • IN: The Beautiful Dead (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Look at the beauty that only death can bring. See Medusa’s raft, where the waxen corpses recline careless on the splintered timbers, fists unclenched and eyes closed on the horrors of the world. At peace at last, their faces are serene, while those of the luckless survivors twist in shipwrecked shock. See Death claim his Maiden, his flesh still rotting on his bones. See her turn her head away in modest horror – while one sly arm embraces him … See the two martyrs in the arena as the snarling tiger reaches them. They, too, are beautiful. Calm – even as the first claw punctures the flesh. Their hands are linked in the certain knowledge that the agony of existence will pass and that they will be together on the other side … A great artist knows how to lead us uncomplaining out of this life and into the next. The Old Masters did it with china-white and elegant hands, with lashes closed on pale cheeks – with stoic mourners and tragic heroes. Who wouldn’t want to be remembered thus? Who wouldn’t relish everlasting life in a world that’s kinder than this one? Who wouldn’t want to be so beautiful? Be honest, dear reader. Who wouldn’t rather be dead?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Gillian Flynn (1)
  • IN: Dark Places (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Days were a clan that mighta lived long But Ben Day's head got screwed on wrong That boy craved dark Satan's power So he killed his family in one nasty hour Little Michelle he strangled in the night Then chopped up Debby; a bloody sight Mother Patty he saved for last Blew off her head with a shotgun blast Baby Libby somehow survived But to live through that ain't much a life
    FROM: Schoolyard Rhyme, (1985), Song, NULL
• Emerald Fennell (1)
  • IN: Monsters (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What do two monsters do when they pass each other in the forest? Smile.
    FROM: German Proverb, (None), Proverb, Germany
• Ruchama King Feuerman (1)
  • IN: In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I tell you my story, you will listen for awhile and then you will fall asleep. But, if, as I tell you my story, you begin to hear your own story, you will wake up.
    FROM: Hasidic saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Philip José Famer (2)
  • IN: Gods of River World (1983) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When Moses struck the rock, he forgot to stand out of the way of the water and so barely escaped drowning.
    FROM: The Book of Jasher, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Jenni Fagan (1)
  • IN: The Panopticon (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
    FROM: Traditional US folk song from the 1870s, (1875), Song, US
• Jenny Erpenbeck (1)
  • IN: Visitation (2008) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: When the house is finished, Death enters.
    FROM: Arabic proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Jill Alexander Essbaum (1)
  • IN: Haus Frau (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the morning skies grow red And o'er their radiance shed, Thou, O Lord, appeareth in their light. When the Alps glow bright with splendour, Pray to God, to Him surrender, For you feel and understand, For you feel and understand, That he dwelleth in this land, That he dwelleth in this land.
    FROM: "Schweizerpsalm", The Swiss National Anthem, (1841), Song, Switzerland
• Amber Benson (1)
  • IN: The End of Magic (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the beginning there was magic. It laced the world together, binding its many pieces into their proper place and maintaining balance. It filled the universe with a sense of the extraordinary, turning journeys into quests, learning into power life into destiny. But change is as inevitable as it is necessary. So the days of magic's dominance waned, and the world shifted, swapping the variables from one side of the equation to the other. The disparate pieces of the old world lost their shape and were torn asunder. Humanity shucked its innocence and magic was discarded. The sense of wonder that once suffused the world was slowly extinguished, leaving a darker void in its wake. A sense of complacency rose up to cradle us and we gave in, settled for eschewing the old ways in favour of the new. To our horror, the world became a place of soulless evil and corruption. One in which we chose to bow down before an altar dedicated wholly to ourselves...
    FROM: Dawn 1:3 The Book of The Flood, (2017), Fictional, NULL
• William Peter Blatty (1)
  • IN: The Exorcist (1971) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: James Torello: Jackson was hung up on that meat hook. He was so heavy he bent it. He was on that thing three days before he croaked. Frank Buccieri (giggling): Jackie, you shoulda seen the guy. Like an elephant, he was, and when Jimmy hit him with that electric prod... Torello (excitedly): He was floppin' around on that hook, Jackie. We tossed water on him to give the prod a better charge, and he's screamin'....
    FROM: Exerpt from wiretap of Cosa Nostra telephone conversation relating to murder of William Jackson, (1961), Conversation, NULL
• Georgia Bockoven (1)
  • IN: The Beach House: Coming Home (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: After you've given your baby to strangers, what do you say when someone asks if you have children?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Aidan Higgins (1)
  • IN: Bornholm Night-Ferry (1983) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Nod larer nogen kvinde at spinde Distress teaches naked women to spin
    FROM: Danish Proverb, (None), Proverb, Denmark
• Larry and DeFelice, Jim Bond (1)
  • IN: Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Shock of War (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The term “global warming” is as misleading as it is inaccurate. True, the overall temperature of the earth as measured by annual average readings will rise. But averages tell us next to nothing. A shortening of a rainy season by two weeks in a given area might be reflected by an increase in the average annual temperature of only a third degree. But the impact on the water supply—and thus the growing season—would be considerably higher. Paradoxically, rapid climate change may bring much lower temperatures in many places. It should be noted that some changes may well benefit people in the affected areas, at least temporarily, by extending growing seasons, negating weather extremes, or having some other unpredictable effect. Unfortunately, the sensationalistic term, combined with the slow evolution of the effects prior to the crisis point, will make it hard to convince the general population of the true danger.
    FROM: Int. Soc. of Environmental Scientists report, (None), NULL, NULL
• Susan Alice Bickford (1)
  • IN: A Short Time To Die (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This is a land where clouds come to die. Fresh young winds, born in Canada, migrate south, over Lake Ontario, where they pick up moisture, and transform into billowing clouds. Once the clouds reach the Empire State, they release their burden as rain or snow, lose elevation and bulk to land on these once-majestic mountains that the glaciers churned and scoured and ground into mere nubby hills. The clouds break apart and roll down the hills, down into the valleys, down into the deepest creases, down into farms and tiny villages that burrowed themselves into the hides of the steep hillsides and valley floors.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Pierce Brown (1)
  • IN: Golden Son (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hic sunt leones. "Here be lions."
    FROM: Nero Au Augustus, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Carla Buckley (2)
  • IN: The Good Goodbye (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Good Good-Bye (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Paul Elwork (1)
  • IN: The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Did you ever think as the hearse rolls by That some of these days you must surely die?
    FROM: World War 1 hearse song, (None), Song, US/England
• Robert Edric (1)
  • IN: The Devil's Beat (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Devil prospers when a lie is told, and silence is the Devil's gold.
    FROM: Seventeenth-century proverb, (1650), Proverb, NULL
• Tom Drury (1)
  • IN: Pacific (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Then the four of them went to another city. "What craft shall we take on?" said Pryderi. "We will make shields," said Manawydan. "Do we know anything about that?" said Pryderi. "We will attempt it," he said.
    FROM: The Mahinogion, (1410), Book, UK
• Zoran Drvenkar (1)
  • IN: sorry (2011) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: A good apology is like a farewell, when you know you won't see each other again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Tananarive Due (1)
  • IN: My Soul to Take (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It wants to... turn me into something else. That's not too terrible, is it? Most people would give anything to be turned into something else.
    FROM: Seth Brundle in The Fly, (1986), Fictional, NULL
• Kristopher Dukes (1)
  • IN: The Sworn Virgin (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: - 38. A woman is a sack, made to endure. - 600. A man who has been dishonored is considered dead. - 601. A man is dishonored: b) If someone spits at him, threatens him, pushes him, or strikes him. c) If someone reneges on his pledged word. d) If his wife is insulted or if she runs off with someone... f) If his hospitality is violated.
    FROM: The Laws of Lekë Dukagjini, the code of the mountainous region east of Shkodra, albania, (1450), NULL, Albania
• Jeremy Duns (1)
  • IN: Song of Treason (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Preventive Direct Action in Free Countries Purpose: Only in cases of critical necessity, to resort to direct action to prevent vital installations, other material, or personnel from being (1) sabotaged or liquidated or (2) captured intact by Kremlin agents or agencies.
    FROM: Policy Planning Staff Memorandum, (1948), NULL, US
• Rod Duncan (1)
  • IN: Unseemly Science (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Revolution was never sparked by political philosophy. It has ever been the price of bread that shakes the pillars of the world. Yet they lock up thinkers and leave the bakers free.
    FROM: Revolution, (None), NULL, NULL
• Lesley Downer (1)
  • IN: The Samurai's Daughter (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Gion Temple bells toll the impermanence of all things; the sala flowers beside the Buddha's deathbed bear testimony to the fact that all who flourish must decline. The proud do not endure, they vanish like a spring night's dream. The mighty fall at last like dust before the wind.
    FROM: The Tale of the Heike, (1371), NULL, Japan
• Dasa Drndic (1)
  • IN: Belladonna (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Hodie mihi, cras tibi. Quis evadet?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Alan Drew (1)
  • IN: Garden of Water (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The enemy of the father will never be the friend of his son.
    FROM: Kurdish proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Jason Denzel (1)
  • IN: Mystic (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the wind, my breath By the light between My eyes to far-lost Fayün So shall I hold dear All that lives in harmony Within the Myst and Carry it into the Deep
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Claudia Carroll (1)
  • IN: Me & You (2013) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Hands trembling, heart palpitating, she recognised the handwriting instantly. I'm fine. I'm sorry. Please take care of him for me. And maybe one day I'll get to explain.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Trent Jameson (1)
  • IN: The Business of Death (2011) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Brace yourselves.
    FROM: Old RM Humour, (None), NULL, NULL
• Brenda Janowitz (1)
  • IN: The Dinner Party (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The first question: Why is this night different fro all other nights? On all other nights we eat leavened products and matzah, but on this night only matzah.
    FROM: The Four Questions (Mah Nishtanah), (None), NULL, Israel
• Stephen Jarvis (2)
  • IN: Death and Mr Pickwick (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Pickwick is reality to all of us.
    FROM: British Journal of Photography, (1903), Journal, UK
• M.R Sellars (2)
  • IN: Never Burn A Witch (2001) Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
    FROM: Amendment I, Constitution of the United States of America, Ratified December 15, 1791, (1791), Legal Document, US
  • IN: Miranda (2010) Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mi•ran•da [mi-ran-duh] – noun: Invented by Shakespeare for the heroine of The Tempest (1611). It represents the feminine form of the Latin gerundive mirandus 'admirable', 'lovely', from mirari 'to wonder at', 'admire'; cf. Amanda.
    FROM: Oxford Concise Dictionary of First Names, (1992), Definition, UK
• Robert Devereaux (1)
  • IN: Baby's First Book of Seriously Fucked-Up Shit (2011) Humour, Horror fiction, Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To the creative spirit in us all. Our damnation if we ignore it, Our salvation if we embrace, nurture, And set it free to dance Beneath sun and stars. Away with all bushel baskets!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jeremy Robinson (1)
  • IN: Kronos (2008) Science Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Horror fiction, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The ocean is as vast as it is mysterious, and man’s desire to venture to its depths to uncover its bounty rarely fades from the forefront of our imaginations. And it is through science and understanding that the finest results will be achieved, not through the dredging, overfishing and exploitation of the world’s finest resource. These mechanisms can only lead to tragedy.
    FROM: Dr. Atticus Young- Oceans in Peril, (2008), Fictional, NULL
• Michael Beres (1)
  • IN: Chernobyl Murders (2008) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Political fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don’t know what I should talk about-about death or about love? Or are they the same? Which one should I talk about?
    FROM: Wife of Chernobyl Fireman, in Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich (1987), (1987), Book, Russia
• Joel Rosenberg (1)
  • IN: The Ezekiel Option (2005) Christian Fiction, Apocalyptic literature, American
    EPIGRAPH: The most important failure was one of imagination. We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat.
    FROM: THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, (2004), Legal Document, US
• James Justinian Morier (2)
  • IN: Abel Allnutt (1837) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And if I have done well as is fining the story, it is that which I desired ; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
    FROM: 2 Maccabees, xy. 38, (-124), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Zohrab, the Hostage (1836) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No kind of literature is so generally attractive as Fiction. Pictures of life and manners, and Stories of adventure, are more eagerly received by the many than graver productions, however important these latter may be. ApuLeius is better remembered by his fable of Cupid and Psyche than by his abstruser Platonic writings; and the Decameron of Boccaccio has out lived the Latin Treatises, and other learned works of that author.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Catharine Maria Sedwick (3)
  • IN: The Boy of Mount Rhigi (1848) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Do the duty nearest to you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Poetical Remains of the Late Lucretia Maria Davidson (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Death, at if rearing to destroy, Paused o'er her couch awhile : She gave a tear for thote ahe love Then met him with a smile
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Record of a School, Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture (1836) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The heart of the good man — the man of honor, the gentleman — la as a lam t> liffhte
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ellen Crosby (1)
  • IN: Multiple Exposure (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Multiple Exposure: the superimposition of two or more individual exposures to create a single photograph. The technique can be used to create ghostly images or to add people and objects that were not originally there to a scene. It is frequently used in photographic hoaxes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• M. P. Cooley (1)
  • IN: Flame Out (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A stranger drowned on the Black Sea alone, with no one to hear his prayers for forgiveness.
    FROM: "Storm on the Black Sea", (None), Song, Ukraine
• Andrei Codrescu (4)
  • IN: Whatever Gets You Through the Night (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The meeting was held at the Waikiki Sheraton the lastweek of February 2012. The main participants were 1001 young women, most of whom were clones, with a minority of them born through ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection), and the scientists who created them. The conference was called for observation purposes, eighteen years after the first successful cloning of a human being.
    FROM: Associated Press, (2012), Article, NULL
• P.C and Cast, Kristin Cast (1)
  • IN: Goddess of the Sea (2003) Romance novel, Speculative fiction, Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: he Valley Spirit never dies. It is named the Mysterious Feminine. And the doorway of the Mysterious Feminine Is the base from which Heaven and Earth sprang. It is there within us all the while. Draw upon it as you will, it never runs dry…
    FROM: Tao te Ching, (-350), NULL, China
• Becky Chambers (1)
  • IN: The Long Way to A Small Angry Planet (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From the ground, we stand; From our ships, we live; By the stars, we hope.
    FROM: Exodan Proverb, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Lincoln Child (1)
  • IN: Utopia (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: u•to•pi•a (yoo•to'pe•ah) n. 1. A state or situation of perfection. 2. An ideal place or location, frequently imaginary.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Tracy Chevalier (1)
  • IN: New Boy (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ice cream soda, cherry on top Tell me the name of your sweetheart!
    FROM: NULL, (2017), Fictional, NULL
• Agatha Christie (2)
  • IN: Hickory Dickory Dock (1955) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Hickory dickory dock The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck one The mouse ran down Hickory dickory dock."
    FROM: Traditional, (1744), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Sparkling Cyanide (1945) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "What can I do to drive away remembrances from mine eyes?"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Wesley Chu (1)
  • IN: The Deaths of Tao (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The path of a vessel is strewn with the dead. The journey of a Quasing even more so, for it is that constant cycle of life and death that will take us home.
    FROM: the Quasing of King Solomon, (2013), Fictional, NULL
• Ann Claybomb (1)
  • IN: The Mermaid's Daighter (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The water is wide, I can't swim o'er. And neither have I the wings to fly. Give me a boat that can carry two, And both shall row, my love and I. There is a ship and she sails the seas. She's loaded deep as deep can be, But not so deep as the love I'm in. I know not how to sink or swim.
    FROM: The Water is Wide (Scottish Folk Song), (1650), Song, UK
• Amanda and JaQuavis Ashley (1)
  • IN: The Cartel (None) NULL, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Diamonds are forever
    FROM: Carter Diamond, (None), NULL, US
• Franck Thilliez (1)
  • IN: Vertige (None) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: La folie ne sonnerait pas si creux. Retenez bien ce bruit de métal. Aussi longtemps qu’il résonnera dans votre tête, il prouvera que vous n’êtes pas fou.
    FROM: Extrait du roman Darkness, (None), NULL, France
• Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1)
  • IN: Rose of Fire (2012) Fiction, Mystery, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And so, when 23 April came round, the prisoners in the block turned to David Martín, who lay in the shadows of his cell with his eyes closed, and begged him to tell them a story with which to alleviate their tedium. ‘I’ll tell you a story,’ he replied. ‘A story about books, dragons and roses, as befits the date, but above all, a story about shadows and ashes, as befits the times…’
    FROM: from the lost fragments of The Prisoner of Heaven, (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Dirk Collier (1)
  • IN: The Emperor's Writings: Memories of Akbar the Great (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed
    FROM: UNESCO Constituition, (1945), Constituition, NULL
• Jessie Chaffee (1)
  • IN: Florence in Ecstasy (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And then at once she was filled with love and inestimable satiety, which, although it satiated, generated at the same time inestimable hunger.
    FROM: The Book of the Blessed Angela of Foligno, (None), Book, Italy
• Martin Smith (1)
  • IN: Gypsy in Amber (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Romany chi And the Romany chal Love luripen And lutchipen And dukkeripen And huknipen And every pen But moripen And tatchipen The Gypsy woman And the Gypsy man Love stealing And loving And fortune-telling And lying And every pen But killing And truth
    FROM: Old Romany Saying, (None), Saying, Italy
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1)
  • IN: 1914-08-01 00:00:00 (1971) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Only the ax can deliver us, and nothing other than the ax... Russia summons us to the ax.
    FROM: A Letter to Aleksandr Herzen's newspaper, The Bell, 1860, (1860), Letter, Russia
• Mavis Cheek (1)
  • IN: The Lovers of Pound Hill (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Gnome 'dwarf-like earth-dwelling spirit,' 1712, from Fr. gnome, from L. gnomus, used 16c, in a treatise by Paracelsus, who gave the name pigmaei or gnomi to elemental earth beings, possibly from Gk. 'genomos 'earth-dweller.' Popular in children's lierature 19c. as a name for red-capped Ger. and Swiss folklore dwards. Garden figurines first imported to England late 1860s from Germany.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Sergio Chejfec (1)
  • IN: The Planets (1999) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Of all invisible countries the present is the most vast
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Massimo Carlotto (1)
  • IN: Bandit Love (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: To the Minister of the Interior, to the Minister of Justice... On March 17th of this year, at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Padua, there was a burglary resulting in the theft of a substantial quantity of illegal narcotics [...] the narcotics were being held in the laboratories for toxicological testing of the active principles. The narcotics in question comprised a total weight of approximately forty-four (44) kilograms, subdivided into thirty (30) kilograms of heroin, ten (10) kilograms of cocaine, and the rest in smaller lots of amphetamines, pills and other substances [...}. These illegal substances were located in the storerooms of the laboratory of the Institute; access to those storerooms was blocked by an armored door; only those in possession of a magetic card and accompanying alphanumeric code could enter without triggering the electronic security alarm. According to media reports,the theft was carried out without any evidence of damage to the locks of the armored doors and by deactivation of the alarm system...
    FROM: Written response to parliamentary inquiry 4-10236 -- session no. 476, (2004), NULL, NULL
• John Burdett (1)
  • IN: Vulture Peak (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What you do to yourself, you do to the world. What you do to the world, you do to yourself.
    FROM: Buddhist proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Sam Byers (1)
  • IN: Idiopathy (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: idiopathy noun A disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from modern late idiopathia, from Greek idiopatheia, from idios 'own, private' + -patheia 'suffering'.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Andrés Caicedo (1)
  • IN: Liveforever. (1977) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It's so sleazy but it's so good.
    FROM: Popular Song, (None), Song, NULL
• Robert Dinsdale (1)
  • IN: Gingerbread (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Who fears the wolf, should not go into the forest.
    FROM: Belarusian folk saying, (None), Saying, Belarus
• Zachary Thomas Dodson (1)
  • IN: Bats of the Republic (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I'm not happy.
    FROM: Favorite saying of my grandfather's, (None), Author, NULL
• De Robertis, Carolina (1)
  • IN: The Gods of Tango (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves.
    FROM: Italian proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
• Kingsley Amis (1)
  • IN: Lucky Jim (1954) Humour, Novel, Fiction, Humorous Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “Oh, lucky Jim, How I envy him. Oh, lucky Jim. How I envy him.”
    FROM: Old Song, (None), Song, NULL
• E.M. Forester (1)
  • IN: Howard’s End (1910) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “Only connect...”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Alan Glynn (1)
  • IN: Graveland (2013) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: In early 2001, having saddled the pharmaceutical giant with huge debt and cut its workforce by a third, Vaughan’s Oberon Capital Group sold Eiben-Chemcorp for a profit of $457 million. It appears, however, that Oberon did this in the full knowledge that an R &D scandal involving leaked samples of a trial “smart drug” was brewing at Eiben. What is more-and is perhaps more shocking-they then shorted the buyer’s stock in order to make a double killing on the transaction.
    FROM: House of Vaughan (p. 23), (None), NULL, NULL
• Rjurik Davidson (1)
  • IN: Unwrapped SKy (2014) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Behold what quiet settles on the world. Night wraps the sky in tribute from the stars. In hours like this, one rises to address The ages, history, and all creation.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mia Couto (2)
  • IN: Sleepwalking Land (1992) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What is it that makes the road move along? It's our dreams. As long as people dream, the road will stay alive. That's what roads are for, to make the future our kin.
    FROM: Tuahir's words, (None), NULL, NULL
• Douglas Coupland (1)
  • IN: Player One (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
    FROM: Doug's Law, (2010), Author, NULL
• Toni McGee Causey (1)
  • IN: Bobbie Faye's Family Jewels (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Genius has its limitations. Insanity... not so much.
    FROM: bumper sticker, (None), [NA], US
• David Chariandy (1)
  • IN: Soucouyant (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Old skin, 'kin, 'kin, You not know me, You na know me...
    FROM: verse fragment from a Carribean tale, (None), [NA], Carribbean
• Natalee Caple (1)
  • IN: The Calamity's Wake (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The trail to the great mystic region Is narrow and dim so they say While the one that leads to perdition Is posted and blazed all the way Whose fault is it then that so many Go astray on this wild range they fail Who might have been rich and had plenty Had they known of that dim narrow trail?
    FROM: Old Western Ballad from Montana (Home on High), (1898), Song, US
• Zaza Burchuladze (1)
  • IN: Adibas (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: adibas: 1. fake adidas 2. surrogate, or imitation in general 3. any fake or falsified thing, situation, fact, etc
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Will Storr (1)
  • IN: The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hoot ffir and smoke makith many an angry cook.
    FROM: NULL, (1450), Epigram, NULL
• Shelly Stratton (2)
  • IN: Between Lost and Found (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man proposes, God disposes.
    FROM: Yiddish proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Alina Bronsky (1)
  • IN: The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (2010) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: As in every language, there is no shortage of extremely crude expressions in Tartar. Understanding these vulgarities helps one read and manage a variety of situations. The following words, then, are not intended to be used but simply to aid the understanding of specific situations.
    FROM: "Insults and Oaths in Tartar", Word for Word, (2010), Fictional, NULL
• Lynne Branard (1)
  • IN: Traveling Light (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The open heart is not heavy And love's hold is never tight To get to where you want to go You must travel light.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Kyril Bonfiglioli (1)
  • IN: The Great Mortdecai Moustache (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: From An Envoi to a Projected Work And patiently, O Reader, I thee pray, Take in good part this work as it is meant, And grieve thee not with ought that I shall say, Since with good will this book abroad is sent, To tell men how in youth I did assay What love did mean and now I it repent: That musing me my friends might well beware. And keep them free from all such pain and care.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William Boyd (1)
  • IN: Armadillo (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Armadillo. (ārmadi-lo). 1577 [-Sp. armadillo, dim of armado armed man, so lit. 'little armed man': -L. armatus, pa. pple. of armare ARM v.]
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• T. C. Boyle (1)
  • IN: The Women (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility; I chose arrogance.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Elizabeth Black (1)
  • IN: The Drowning House (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Galveston... died in 1900. What remains in my memory is... a place of the mind...
    FROM: Dallas Times Herald, (1966), Article, US
• Juliet Blackwell (1)
  • IN: The Paris Key (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Paris is always a good idea.
    FROM: Sabrina, (1995), Film, US
• Alex Connor (2)
  • IN: Legacy of Blood (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil, spare us
    FROM: The Book of Common Prayer, (1662), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: Memory of Bones (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Floating on the water at the edge of the canal, hardly visible, was a bundle, wrapped tightly in a soiled white blanket. It was small, benign, but eerie. Gently, it glided away and began its grisly procession down the middle of the canal, on an almost imperceptible current. Transfixed, they watched its progress, the bundle finally passing under the full glare of one of the restaurant's outside lamps. The beam illuminated the blood-spattered wrapping - and the place where the parcel had come partially untied. From which a disembodied hand, fingers outstretched, clawed its way to the light.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Claire Cook (1)
  • IN: Time Flies (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I I am I am writing I am writing this I am writing this in I am writing this in the I am writing this in the corner I am writing this in the corner of I am writing this in the corner of your I am writing this in the corner of your old I am writing this in the corner of your old yearbook
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Tamar Cohen (1)
  • IN: The Fallout (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lucie, age four I am scrunched up as small as small can be in my special place. My knees are right under my chin so that when I put out my tongue I can lick the scab on my right knee from where I fell off the swing in the playground. Scabs help you get better. You mustn't pick them. My heart is boom-booming in my chest and I have that sick feeling like when I needed to go toilet at school but didn't want to say and ended up in a warm puddle with my face hot and everyone laughing. It's not comfy sitting like this in my special place. My legs are hurting. Now I'm a big girl, nearly at big school, I don't really fit in my special place anymore, but I dare not move. I must stay as still as a statue. It's dark in my special place and I'm frightened but I mustn't make a sound. I must be as quiet as a little mouse. Eek, eek, eek. Or Mummy will find me.
    FROM: NULL, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Kresley Cole (4)
  • IN: Shadow's Claim (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I thought gold was the most precious and beautiful thing on earth. Until I met him.
    FROM: Princess Bettina of Abaddon, (2012), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Sweet Ruin (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When in doubt, squeeze till something breaks.
    FROM: Josephine Doe, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Reed Farrel Coleman (1)
  • IN: Where It Hurts (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is always a cause, but not always a because. And even when there is, the dead are beyond its reach or caring.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jenny Colgan (1)
  • IN: The Café by the Sea (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: hiraeth (n): a homesickness for a home to which you canno return, a home that maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for lost places in your past
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Parker Bilal (1)
  • IN: Dogstar Rising (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Apocalypse: From the Greek [ajpokaluvptw]***in original script, apokalupto, meaning to uncover or reveal -- to remove the veil; the revelation of what was hidden from mankind; the end of a long dark age ruled by corruption and dishonesty.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Janet Benton (1)
  • IN: Lilli de Jong (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every other door... is closed to her who, unmarried, is about to become a mother. Deliberate, calculating villainy, fraud, outrage, burglary, or even murder with malice aforethought, seems to excite more sympathy, more helpful pity, more efforts for the reclamation of the transgressors than are shown towards those who, if not the victims of others, are at the worst but illustrations of human infirmity.
    FROM: annual report of the State Hospital for Women and Infants, (1880), NULL, US
• Melanie Benjamin (1)
  • IN: The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are not at all surprised at what in this country is most foolishly called the conceit and vanity of the Americans. What people in the world have so fine, so magnificient a country?... If ever these magnificient dreams of the American people are realized -- and all that is wanted for their realization is that things should only go on as they have been going on for the last two countries -- there will be seated upon that vast continent a population greater than that of all Europe, all speaking the same language, all active-minded, intelligent, and well off.
    FROM: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (1850), Article, US
• R. S. Belcher (1)
  • IN: The Brotherhood of the Wheel (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The difference between a fairy tale and a truck driver's story is that the fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time," whereas the truck driver's story starts, "You ain't gonna believe this..."
    FROM: An old trucker saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Shirley Barrett (1)
  • IN: Rush Oh! (2015) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: There are few people, if any, who have not heard of the Killer Whales of Twofold Bay -- of the great help they render to the whaling crews at Eden and the names they bear, such as Tom, Hooky, Humpy and Cooper ... And yet those who have known these strange creatures for a lifetime look upon them as friends; yes, just as much friends to the whaling crews as the cattle dog to the drover; just about as much, if not a little more so.
    FROM: Eden Observer and South Coast Advocate, (1903), NULL, NULL
• A. Igoni Barrett (1)
  • IN: Blackass (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: O gbodo ridin (don't be stupid) O gbodo suegbe (don't be slow) O gbodo ya mugun l'Eko (don't allow yourself to be taken for a fool)
    FROM: Words on the plinth of the Agba Meta (Three Elders) statue at the entrance to Lagos, (None), NULL, Nigeria
• Michael Bamberger (1)
  • IN: The Swinger (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The tree was dead. Still, the children climbed it.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Chloe Aridjis (1)
  • IN: Asunder (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If one hundred dogs bark at a phantom, the phantom becomes reality.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Roberto Arlt (2)
  • IN: Mad Toy (1926) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Copper rose is not a Rose, is not a Kiss, in Arlt's many-sided Machine -- Recorder of fireworks, Fleurs de la banalité modernoe ("I am not Hamlet nor was meant to be"), Parallelpipeda scraping the skies, Phantasmagoria in zinc, "What did you do with my life?" ask Seven Stooges seeking their Author -- Hanged puppets Tin soldiers Mad toys sans Sight -- Michele: "And if I accuse the Inventor?" Arlt: "It's not my fault."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Isaac Adamson (1)
  • IN: Complication (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Complication (noun) 1. A condition or event that is complex or confused. 2. An intricate and often puzzling relationship of parts. 3. (Medicine/Pathology) -- A secondary or negative reaction during the course of an illness. 4. (---) -- Beginning in the sixteenth century, any feature of a timepiece beyond the standard display of hours, minutes, and seconds. Used to refer to both the mechanism itself and the timepiece housing it. Examples include calendars, phases of the moon, signs of the Zodiac, and automatons engaged in various acts erotic, whimsical, or religious in nature. 5. A big can of worms.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Kevin Martens Wong (1)
  • IN: Altered Straits (2017) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Pra yo sa song kung strela Dah nus bai buskah ngua bista di mar For my voice and my star Let us seek a glimpse of the sea
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Portuguese-Eurasian heritage language, Kristang
• Doug Stanton (1)
  • IN: 12 Strong (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am the kit fox, I live in uncertainty. If there is anything difficult, If there is anything dangerous to do, That is mine.
    FROM: Sioux warrior's song, (None), Song, US
• Isabel Allende (1)
  • IN: The Stories of Eva Luna (1989) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The King ordered the Grand Vizier to bring him a virgin every night, and when the night was over, he ordered her to be killed. And thus it had happened for three years, and in all the city there was no damsel left to withstand the assaults of this rider. But the vizier had a daughter of great beauty, named Scheherazade...and she was very eloquent, and pleased all who heard her.
    FROM: A Thousand and One Tales of the Arabian Nights, (1705), Book, NULL
• Amy Tan (1)
  • IN: Where The Past Begins (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You think you are oceans apart when it is really only a slipstream that you fell into by accident or inattention.
    FROM: Slipstream [From the journal], (2012), [NA], NULL
• Celeste Ng (2)
  • IN: Little Fires Everywhere (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Actually, though, all things considered, people from Shaker Heights are basically pretty much like people everywhere else in America. They may have three or four cars instead of one or two, and they may have two television sets instead of one, and when a Shaker Heights girl gets married she may have a reception for eight hundred, with the Meyer Davis band flown in from New York, instead of a wedding reception for a hundred with a local band, but these are all differences of degree rather than fundamental differences. "We're friendly people and we have a wonderful time!" said a woman at the Shaker Heights Country Club recently, and she was right, for the inhabitants of Utopia do, in fact, appear to lead a rather happy life.
    FROM: "The Good Life in Shaker Heights", Cosmopolitan, (1963), NULL, US
• Zinzi Clemmons (1)
  • IN: What We Lose (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: African-American women now have about the same risk of getting breast cancer as white women. However, the risk of dying from breast cancer remains higher for African-American women... In 2012, African-American women had a 42 percent higher rate of breast cancer mortality (death) than white women.
    FROM: Susan G. Komen organization, (None), [NA], US
• Dario Fo (2)
  • IN: The Pope's Daughter (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In the production we saw, there were children on the proscenium, and at the height of the most tasteless and grotesque of the pantomimes, they could do nothing more than look on in horror.
    FROM: Lucrezia to her brother Cesare, (2014), Fictional, Italy
• Thomas H. Cook (1)
  • IN: Sandrine's Case (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sandrine: a popular French female name. It is derived from Old Greek and is a shortened form of Alexandra, which means helper and defender of mankind.
    FROM: The Meaning of Names, (None), Other?, NULL
• Larry Correia (1)
  • IN: Monster Hunter Vendetta (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "When monsters have nightmares, they're dreaming about us."
    FROM: MHI Company Handbook, (2010), Fictional, NULL
• Marcus Sedgwick (1)
  • IN: A Love Like Blood (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Demons that have no shame, Seven are they! Knowing no care, They grind the land like corn; Knowing no mercy, They rage against mankind; They spill blood like rain, Devouring fleh and sucking their veins. They are Demons full of violence Ceaselessly devouring blood.
    FROM: Incantation against the Seven Spirits, (None), Poem, Iraq/Turkey
• Rob Scott (1)
  • IN: 15 Miles (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: From Wibbleton to Wobbleton is fifteen miles, From Wibbleton to Wobbleton is fifteen miles, From Wibbleton to Wobbleton, From Wibbleton to Wobbleton, From Wibbleton to Wobbleton is fifteen miles.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Song, NULL
• Richard Head (1)
  • IN: The English Rogue (1665) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Man's life a play, the world a stage, whereon Learn thou to play, or else be play'd upon. Si mibi praeteritos referat nunc Jupiter annos, Qualis eram, &c.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Matthew Reilly (1)
  • IN: Scarecrow (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: All the brave men are dead
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, Russia
• Oliver (attributed) Goldsmith (1)
  • IN: Goody Two Shoes; or, The history of little Margery Meanwell (1765) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Virtue is not to rank confined, Worth is nobility of mind.
    FROM: Chap IV., (None), NULL, NULL
• Oliver Goldsmith (1)
  • IN: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: sperate miseri, cavete felices (let the wretched live in hope and the happy be on their guard)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• B. Traven (1)
  • IN: The Death Ship (1926) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Now stop that crying, honey dear, The Jackson Square remains still here In sunny New Orleans In lovely Louisiana. She thinks me buried in the sea, No longer does she wait for me In sunny New Orleans In lovely Louisiana. The death ship is it I am in, All I have lost, nothing to win So far off sunny New Orleans So far off lovely Louisana.
    FROM: Song of an American Sailor, (None), Song, US
• Dorothy L. Sayers (4)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Drunk as a lord? As a class they are really very sober."
    FROM: Judge Cluer, (None), NULL, NULL
• L. Sayers, Dorothy (1)
  • IN: Clouds of Witness (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Westminster Hall. Enter as to the Parliament, Bolingbroke, Aumerle, Northumberland, Percy, Fitzwater, Surrey, the Bishop of Carlisle, the Abbot of Westminster, and another Lord, Herald, Officers, and Bagot. Bolingbroke Call forth Bagot. Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind; What thou dost know of noble Glouster's death; Who wrought it with the king, and who performed The bloody office of his timeless end. Bagot Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.
    FROM: King Richard II, (1597), NULL, UK
• Christopher Wren, Percival (2)
  • IN: Beau Sabreur (1926) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "A man may escape from his enemies or even from his friends, but how shall a man escape from his own nature?"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Beau Geste (1939) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Tout ce que je raconte, je l'ai vu, et si j'ai pu me tromper en le voyant, bien certainment je ne vous trompe pas en vous le disant."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• William Faulkner (1)
  • IN: Soldiers' Pay (1926) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Achilles-- Did you shave this morning, Cadet? Mercury--Yes,Sir. Achilles--What with, Cadet? Mercury--Issue,Sir. Achilles--Carry on, Cadet.
    FROM: Old play, (None), Play, NULL
• Samuel Jackson Pratt as "Courtney Melmoth" (1)
  • IN: The Tutor of Truth (1779) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: However Hypocrisy may flourish for a time, even its happiest moments are clouded, and TRUTH shall at last prevail.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William Combe (1)
  • IN: Letters of an Italian Nun and an English Gentleman (1781) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Il cor gradisce; E serve a lui chi'l suo dover conspisce.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• John Fowles (1)
  • IN: The Collector (1963) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: que fors aus ne le sot riens nee
    FROM: La Chatelaine de Vergi, (1250), Poem, France
• Philip Macdonald (1)
  • IN: The Rasp (1924) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All the Birds of the Air Fell a-sighin' and a-sobbin' When they head of the death Of Poor Cock Robin. / 'Who'll dig his Grave?' "I," said the Owl, 'With my little Trowel; I'll dig his Grave.' / 'Who killed Cock Robin?' 'I,' said the Sparrow, 'With my Bow and Arrow, I killed Cock Robin!'
    FROM: Who Killed Cock Robin, (1770), Poem, UK
• Yaa Gyasi (1)
  • IN: Home Going (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: (***original translation not include -- words unable to be typed out) The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.
    FROM: Akan Proverb, (None), NULL, Ghana
• Matt Haig (1)
  • IN: The Radleys (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Your instincts are wrong. Animals rely on instincts for their daily survival, but we are not beasts. We are not lions or sharks or vultures. We are civilised and civilisation only works if instincts are suppressed. So, do your bit for society and ignore those dark desires inside you.
    FROM: The Abstainer's Handbook (second edition), (2010), Book, NULL
• Sarah Hall (1)
  • IN: The Wolf Border (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Susiraja (Finnish) -- Literally 'wolf border': the boundary between the capital region and the rest of the country. The name suggests everything outside the border is wilderness.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Charles Murray (1)
  • IN: Hamewith (1900) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Here on the Rand we freely grant We're blest wi' sunny weather; Fae cauld an' snaw we're weel awa, But man, we miss the heather. ~~
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• James Branch Cabell (1)
  • IN: Figures of Earth (1921) Fantasy Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Cascun se mir el jove Manuel, Qu'era del mom lo plus valens dels pros."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Marie-Henri Beyle (5)
  • IN: The Red and the Black (1830) Psychological Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Il n'y a plus qu'une seule noblesse, c'est le titre de duc, marquis est ridicule, au mot duc on tourne la tête.
    FROM: Edinburg Review, (1830), Author, France
• Booth Tarkington (1)
  • IN: Gentle Julia (1922) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Rising to the point of order, this one said that since the morgue was not yet established as the central monument and inspiration of our settlement, and true philosophy was as well expounded in the convivial manner as in the miserable, he claimed for himself, not the license, but the right, to sing a ballad, if he chose, upon even so solemn a matter as the misuse of the town pump by witches."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sue Hubbard (1)
  • IN: Rainsongs (2018) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Is beag an rud is buaine ná an duine: The smallest of things outlives the human being.
    FROM: Irish Proverb, (None), Proverb, Ireland
• Marlon James (1)
  • IN: A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If it no go so, it go near so
    FROM: Jamaica Proverb, (None), Proverb, Jamaica
• James Jones (1)
  • IN: The Thin Red Line (1962) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.
    FROM: Old Midwestern Saying, (None), Saying, US
• Ethel Turner (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: So lay that afternoon to sleep Among your dearest pansy-knots, The hushed herbarium where you keep Your heart's forget-me-nots.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Alice Caldwell Hegan (3)
  • IN: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1901) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those there are whose hearts have a slope southward, and are open to the whole noon of Nature.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Joseph and Ford, Ford Madox Conrad (2)
  • IN: The Inheritors (1901) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sardanapalus builded seven cities in a day. Let us eat, drink and sleep, for to-morrow we die.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Romance (1903) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: “C'est toi qui dors dans Vombre, O sacré Souvenir.” If we could have remembrance now And see, as in the days to come We shall, what's venturous in these hours: The swift, intangible romance of fields at home, The gleams of sun, the showers, Our workaday contentments, or our powers To fare still forward through the uncharted haze Of present days. . . . For, looking back when years shall flow Upon this olden day that's now, We'll see, romantic in dimm'd hours, These memories of ours.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William Henry Drummond (1)
  • IN: Johnnie Courteau and Other Poems (1901) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Remember when these tales you read Of rude but honest "Canayen," That Joliet, La Verandrye, La Salle, Marquette, and Hennepin Were all true "Canayen" themselves-- And in their veins the same red stream : The conquering blood of Normandie Flowed strong, and gave America Coureurs de bois and voyageurs Whose trail extends from sea to sea !
    FROM: NULL, (1901), Author, NULL
• Vanessa Lafaye (1)
  • IN: At First Light (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There was a painted bird Sitting in a green lemon tree, With its beak it cut the branch, With the branch it cut the flower, Ay, ay, at! When will my love come? I kneel at the feet of my love, I get up, loyal, loyal, Give me your hand, give me the other, Give me a kiss one the mouth. I'll make a half turn, I'll make a full circle, With one step back, Making a bow. But no, but no, but no, Because I'm embarrased, But yes, but yes, but yes, Because I love you.
    FROM: La Pajara Pinta (The Painted Bird), (None), Song, Cuba
• Sheila Llewellyn (1)
  • IN: Walking Wounded (2018) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: As far as treatment is concerned, one might well say that everything we do here is treatment.
    FROM: Introducing You to Northfield', (1945), Other?, NULL
• David Mamet (1)
  • IN: American Buffalo (1976) Fiction, Play, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is peeling down the alley in a black and yellow Ford.
    FROM: Folk Tune, (None), Song, NULL
• Cormac McCarthy (1)
  • IN: Blood Meridian (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Clark, who led last year's expedition to the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, and UC Berkeley colleague Tim D. White, also said that a re-examination of a 300,000-year-old fossil skull found in the same region earlier shows evidence of having been scalped.
    FROM: The Yuma Daily Sun, (1982), Article, US
• Henry Lawson (1)
  • IN: Children of the Bush (1902) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: ... For thirst is long and throats is short Among the sons o' men.
    FROM: M. J. C., (None), NULL, NULL
• Bram Stoker (1)
  • IN: The Mystery of the Sea (1902) Novel, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: To win the mystery o' the sea, An' learn the secrets that there be, Gather in ane these weirds three: A gowden moon on a flowin' tide; An' Lammas floods for the spell to bide; An' a gowden mon wi death for his bride.
    FROM: Gaelic verse, (1902), Author, Ireland
• Mark Twain (3)
  • IN: A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902) Novelette, American
    EPIGRAPH: No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
    FROM: NULL, (1902), Author, NULL
  • IN: The Gilded Age (1873) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Nibiwa win o-dibendan aki Eng A gallant tract Of land it is! Meercraft 'Twill yield a pound an acre; We must let cheap over at first. But, sir, This looks too large for you, I see.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Edith Wharton (1)
  • IN: The Valley of Decision (1902) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Vision touched him on the lips and said: Hereafter thou shalt eat me in thy bread, Drink me in all thy kisses, feel my hand Steal 'twixt thy palm and Joy's, and see me stand Watchful at every crossing of the ways, The insatiate lover of thy nights and days.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Simon Conway (1)
  • IN: A Loyal Spy (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lodestone Oil foresees a thousand mile long oil pipeline that will extend south through Afghanistan to an export terminal that will be constructed on the Pakiistan coast. The Estimated cost of the project is $2.5 billion.
    FROM: Hearing before the Committee on International Relations, United States House of Representatives, 1996, (1996), Speech, US
• Mary Jane Clark (1)
  • IN: Footprints in the Sand (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You need not call the devil; he'll come without calling.
    FROM: Amish Proverb, (None), Proverb, US
• Chris Cleave (1)
  • IN: Incendiary (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... a most terrible fire broke out, which ... not only wasted the adjacent parts, but also places very remote, with incredible noise and fury.
    FROM: Inscription on the Monument to the Great Fire of London, north side, (1677), Other?, UK
• Gita Mehta (1)
  • IN: A River Sutra (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Listen, O brother, Man is the greatest truth. Nothing beyond.
    FROM: Love Songs of Chandidas, (1970), Book, NULL
• Pascal Mercier (1)
  • IN: Lea (2007) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We cast the shadows of our emotions on others and they theirs on us Sometimes we threaten to choke on them But without them there would be no light in our lives
    FROM: Ancient Armenian grave inscription, (None), NULL, Armenia
• Kei Miller (1)
  • IN: Augustown (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: August Town, in the hills of St. Andrew, Jamaica is thought to have been named from the fact that freedom came to the enslaved people of this country on 'Augus Mawnin' -- the 1st August, 1838. August Town later became notable because at this place a prophet, whose name was Bedward, arose. He had thousands of followers, but outdid himself when he proclaimed that he was God and could fly.
    FROM: The Dictionary of Place-Names in Jamaica, (1978), Book, Jamaica
• Neel Mukherjee (1)
  • IN: A State of Freedom (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Migrants? We are not migrants! We are ghosts, that's what we are, ghosts.
    FROM: Syrian refugee at the border of Austria, (2015), Conversation, Syria
• Hasan Namir (1)
  • IN: God in Pink (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Naivo (1)
  • IN: Beyond the Rice Fields (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Kotrokorana Ny voalohany ihany No mahamanina Fa ny aoriana Tselatra sy varatra be ihany Rumbling storm The first sound of thunder Is a bittersweet pang The ones that follow Are but flashes of lightning
    FROM: Hainteny, Malagasy, (None), Poem, Madagascar
• John Niven (1)
  • IN: No Good Deed (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No good deed goes unpunished.
    FROM: Old Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Lisa Wingate (1)
  • IN: Before We Were Yours (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Did you know that in this land of the free and home of the brave there is a great baby market? And the securities which change hands... are not mere engraved slips of paper promising certain financial dividends, but live, kicking, flesh-and-blood babies.
    FROM: "The Baby Market", The Saturday Evening Post, (1930), Article, US
• Juan José Saer (1)
  • IN: La Grande (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.
    FROM: Abbreviated Dictionary of Surrealism, (1938), Definition, NULL
• Catherine Coulter (1)
  • IN: Lord of Hawkfell Island (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The halt can ride, the handless can herd, the dear can fight with spirit; A blind man is better than a corpse on a pyre — A corpse is no good to anyone.
    FROM: Hávamál, (None), Poem, Scandinavia
• Le Carré, John (1)
  • IN: The Tailor of Panama (1996) Spy Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Quel Panama!"
    FROM: Expression current in France in the early years of this century: describes an insoluble mess., (None), NULL, France
• Celia Rees (1)
  • IN: Sovay (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sovay, Sovay all on a day She dressed herself in man’s array With a brace of pistols all by her side To meet her true love, to meet her true love, away she’d ride As she was riding over the plain She met her true love and bid him stand “Stand and deliver, young sir,” she said “And if you do not, and if you do not, I’ll shoot you dead” He delivered up his golden store And still she craved for one thing more “That diamond ring, that I see you wear Oh hand it over, oh hand it over, and your life I’ll spare” Sovay head From that diamond ring I would not part For it’s a token from my sweetheart Shoot and be damned, you rogue" said he “And you’ll be hanged, you’ll be hanged then for murdering me” Next morning in the garden green Young Sophie and her true love were seen He spied his watch hanging from her clothes Which made him blush lads, which made him blush lads like any rose “Why do you blush you silly thing I thought to have that diamond ring T’was I who robbed you all on the plain So here’s your gold, love, so here’s your gold and your watch and chain I only did it for to know If you would be a man or no If you had given me that ring she said I’d have pulled the trigger, pulled the trigger and shot you dead”
    FROM: Traditional Ballad, (None), Song, NULL
• Herman Melville (4)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!
    FROM: Nantucket Song, (None), Song, US
• Jennifer Lee Carrell (1)
  • IN: The Shakespeare Curse (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: An it harm none, do what ye will.
    FROM: The Wiccan Rede (or Witches' Counsel), (None), Proverb, NULL
• Tracy Kidder (1)
  • IN: Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beyond mountains there are mountains.
    FROM: Haitian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Haiti
• Toni Morrison (2)
  • IN: Song of Solomon (1977) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The fathers may soar And the children may know their names.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Paradise (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins, and incontinencies, and disgraceful passions and fleeting pleasures, which (men) embrace until they become sober and go up to their resting place. And they will find me there, and they will live, and they will not die again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Elizabeth George (1)
  • IN: Deception on His Mind (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman’s will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on’t; And if she won’t, she won’t; so there’s an end on’t.
    FROM: From the pillar erected on the Mount in the Dane John Field in Canterbury., (None), Inscription, UK
• Robin Cook (1)
  • IN: Vector (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ne roy drugola yams, sam v neyo popadesh (do not dig a hole for another, you just might fall in it yourself)
    FROM: Russian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Russia
• Katherine Howe (1)
  • IN: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (2009) Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I watch’d today as Giles Corey was presst to death between the stones. He had lain so for two days mute. With each stone they tolde him he must plead, lest more rocks be added. But he only whisperd, More weight. Standing in the crowde I found Goodwyfe Dane, who, as the last stone lower’d, went white, grippt my hand, and wept.
    FROM: Letter fragment dated “Salem Towne, September 16, 1692." Division of Rare Manuscripts, Boston Athenaeum, (1692), Letter, US
• Brunonia Barry (1)
  • IN: The Lace Reader (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Lace Reader must stare at the piece of lace until the pattern blurs and the face of the Seeker disappears completely behind the veil. When the eyes begin to fill with tears and the patience is long exhausted, there will appear a glimpse of something not quite seen. In this moment an image will begin to form … in the space between what is real and what is only imagined.
    FROM: The Lace Reader’s Guide, (2006), Book, NULL
• Amanda Forester (1)
  • IN: If the Earl Only Knew (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told.
    FROM: English Nursery Rhyme, (None), Poem, UK
• Megan Frampton (1)
  • IN: No Groom at the Inn (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Agamist: 1. A person opposed to the institution of matrimony. 2. A thick fog specific to bodies of fresh water. 3. A compound of iron and salt.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Adhiambo Owuor, Yvonne (1)
  • IN: Dust (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Chon gi lala…
    FROM: Luo Story Beginnings, (None), NULL, Kenya
• Henry Morton Robinson (2)
  • IN: The Cardinal (1950) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Q. Why did God make you? A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
    FROM: Lesson First: A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, (None), NULL, NULL
• Rakesh Satyal (1)
  • IN: No One Can Pronounce my Name (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You just came over here and shot my foot!
    FROM: Author's father, (2017), Author, US
• Nora/ K. Hamilton,Laurell /Krinard, Susan/ Shayne, Maggie Roberts (1)
  • IN: Out of This World (2011) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Happy is the child whose father goes to the devil.
    FROM: Sixteenth- Century Proverb, (1550), Proverb, NULL
• James Oswald (2)
  • IN: Dreamwalker (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When Balwen’s last sits on the stolen throne, And killing sleeps beside the babe ne’er born, When darkness stills the forests birds at noon, In blood and fire Gwlad shall rise anew.
    FROM: The Prophecies of Mad Goronwy, (2012), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Obsidian Throne (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lost another one today. A promising lad, he just disappeared from my study, leaving the fire to burn out and the plates uncleared. There is no sign of him in the castle, and the major dome knows nothing of him. A shame. I had high hopes. I remained convinced that there is within men the capacity to know and manipulate the subtle arts. Many show an innate sensitivity to the Grym, which is the source of all life after all. If I can just find a way to increase their mental discipline and dampen down their innate curiosity, I am sure this experiment will succeed.
    FROM: From the working journals of Got, Son of the Winter Moon, (2016), Fictional, NULL
• Marilyn Pappano (2)
  • IN: A Man to Hold on To (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The strength of our soldiers comes from the strength of their families.
    FROM: U.S. Army, (None), [NA], US
  • IN: A Hero to Come Home To (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The greatest casualty is being forgotten.
    FROM: Wounded Warrior Project, (2003), NULL, NULL
• Wallace Thurman (1)
  • IN: The Blacker the Berry... (1929) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The blacker the berry The sweeter the juice...
    FROM: Negro Folk Saying, (None), Saying, US
• Amanda Hocking (2)
  • IN: From the Earth to the Shadows (2018) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Kurnugia: noun /kər-nōō-gē-uh/ from Sumerian, literally "earth of no return," referring to the underworld where immortals exist after death.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Between the Blade and the Heart (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Valkyrie: noun /val-'kir-ē/ from Old Norse valkyrja, literally "chooser of the slain," referring to any of the maidens of Odin who choose the immortals to be slain and conduct them to the afterlife.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Diana Secker (Editor) Tesdell (1)
  • IN: Horse Stories (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Everyman, I will go with thee, And be thy guide, In thy most need To go by thy side
    FROM: A Medieval morality play (Everyman), (1475), Play, UK
• J. A. Jance (1)
  • IN: Hour of the Hunter (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are all hunters.
    FROM: Clayton Savage in A Less Than Noble Savage, an unpublished manuscript by Andrew Philip Carlisle, (1991), Fictional, NULL
• Jason M. Hough (5)
  • IN: Injection Burn (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I couldn't go. Couldn't be boxed in a ship like that knowing Earth is free again. Everyone's an immune now! That's a party I couldn't miss.
    FROM: Skadz, 2285, overheard at Woon's Tavern, (2017), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Darwin Elevator (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They said "The meek shall inherit the Earth" like it would be a good thing. Thanks a lot, assholes.
    FROM: Skadz, 2279, (2013), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Exodus Towers (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Builders? That's a laugh. All they did was drop a cable and a nasty bug. You want to call someone a builder, I say look at Neil Platz.
    FROM: Skadz, Darwin, Australia, 2280, (2013), Fictional, NULL
• Evan Jacobs (1)
  • IN: Screaming Quietly (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sometimes we find ourselves on a gravel road, not sure of how we got there or where the road leads. Sharp stones pellet the unprotected. And the everyday wear and tear sears more deeply.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Dolen Perkins-Valdez (2)
  • IN: Balm (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: See him at the seashore Preaching to the people Healing all the sick ones Amen, Amen, Amen.
    FROM: "Amen" (African American Spiritual), (1963), Song, US
• Jesmyn Ward (1)
  • IN: Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return. It's Equiano we're looking for.
    FROM: Kwa chant about the disappearance of Equiano, an African boy, (None), NULL, Africa
• Evelyn Waugh (2)
  • IN: Put Out More Flags (1942) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A little injustice in the heart can be drowned by wine; but a great injustice in the world can be drowned only by the sword.
    FROM: Epigrams of Chang Ch'ao (trans. by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living), (1937), Book, China
• Jeff Jacobson (1)
  • IN: Sleep Tight (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Table C-1: Summary of WHO Global Pandemic Phases (WHO Global Influenza Preparedness Plan, 2005) Interpandemic Period Phase 1. No new influenza virus subtypes have been detected in humans. An influenza virus subtype that has caused human infection may be present in animals. If present in animals, the risk of human infection or disease is considered to be low. Phase 2. No new influenza virus subtypes have been detected in humans. However, a circulating animal influenza virus subtype poses a substantial risk of human disease. Pandemic Alert Period Phase 3. Human infection(s) with a new subtype but no human-to-human spread or at most rare instances of spread to a close contact. Phase 4. Small cluster(s) with limited human-to-human spread is highly localized, suggesting that the virus is not well adapted to humans Phase 5. Larger cluster(s) but human-to-human spread is still localized, suggesting that the virus is becoming increasingly better adapted to humans but may not yet be fully transmissible (substantial pandemic risk). Pandemic Period Phase 6. Pandemic phase: increased and sustained transmission in the general population.
    FROM: World Health Organization website, (None), Other?, NULL
• Greg Iles (2)
  • IN: The Devil's Punchbowl (2009) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: "You're an animal." "No, worse. Human."
    FROM: Runaway Train, (1985), Film, US
  • IN: The Footprints of God (2003) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: All things return to the One. What does the One return to?
    FROM: Zen koan, (None), NULL, China
• Ödön Von Horváth (1)
  • IN: The Eternal Philistine (1930) Political Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Love never fails
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Antonia Hodgson (1)
  • IN: The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All you that in the condemned hold do lie Prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die
    FROM: Words called beneath Newgate Prison on the eve of a hanging, (1605), Other?, UK
• Timothy J. Jarvis (1)
  • IN: The Wanderer (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Goin' down the road feelin' bad, Well, I'm goin' down the road feelin' bad, Oh, I'm goin' down the road feelin' bad, Lord, Lord, And I ain't gonna be treated this a-way.
    FROM: Traditional American song, (None), Song, US
• Tiphanie Yanique (1)
  • IN: How to Escape From a Leper Colony (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lead us toward those we are waiting for, those who are waiting for us.
    FROM: From the prayer to Saint Raphael, patron saint of lovers and travelers, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Ross Armstrong (1)
  • IN: Head Case (2018) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Hush little baby Hush quite a lot Bad babies get rabies And have to be shot
    FROM: The Music Never Stopped, (2011), Film, US
• Alison Belsham (1)
  • IN: The Tattoo Thief (2018) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One, two, cut a tattoo, Three, four, flay some more Five, six, my bloody fix Seven, eight, will not wait
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Daniel Cole (1)
  • IN: Hangman (2018) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What if there is a God? 'What if there is a heaven? 'What if there is a hell? 'And what if ... just what if ... we're all already there?'
    FROM: NULL, (2018), Fictional, NULL
• Pino Corrias (1)
  • IN: We'll Sleep When We're Old (2015) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If you need a friend, get a dog.
    FROM: Wall Street, (1987), Film, US
• John Passarella (1)
  • IN: Grimm:The Chopping Block (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “He called them to the grand feast and gathered them in celebration, to remember and enjoy the finer things.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• T. Olsson, Fredrik (1)
  • IN: Chain of Events (2014) Science Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing would ever make me keep a diary. Things happen. Time passes. Life begins and goes on and ends, and nothing in all the meaninglessness becomes better just because you write it down and look at it afterwards, One day, everything is going to be over, and if there’s one thing I know it’s that when the soil thuds on to the wooden lid above me there won’t be a soul who wants to read what I did some Monday in March. Nothing would make me keep a diary. Except for one thing. The realisation that soon there won’t be anyone around to read it. Tuesday 25 November. There’s snow in the air. And fear in everyone’s eyes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Tom Holt (1)
  • IN: The Two of Swords (2015) Fantasy Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Deal nine cards, face upwards.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Rhonda Pollero (1)
  • IN: Fat Chance (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The difference between the wrath of God and the wrath of your mother is that eventually, God forgives you
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Adam Lebor (1)
  • IN: District VIII (2017) Fiction, Mystery Ficon, British
    EPIGRAPH: You cannot walk in a straight line when the road is bent.
    FROM: Gypsy proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Anna Mioduchowska (1)
  • IN: Charm (2011) Speculative Fiction, Short Story, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Elysia chlorotica: species of sea slug... known for its ability to photosynthesize food. It is the only known member of the animal kingdom capable of producing chlorophyll.
    FROM: Encyclopaedia Britannica, (1994), Book, NULL
• Peter Watts (1)
  • IN: Malak (2010) Speculative Fiction, Short Story, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: [Collateral] damage is not unlawful so long as it is not excessive in light of the overall military advantage anticipated from the attack.
    FROM: Joint Publication 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, 12 April 2001 (as amended through 17 March 2009), (2009), NULL, US
• Anna Hope (1)
  • IN: Wake (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: wake /wāk/ 1. Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2. Ritual for the dead. 3. Consequence or aftermath.
    FROM: Na, (None), Definition, NULL
• Ruth Ware (1)
  • IN: In a Dark Dark Wood (2015) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house; And in the dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room' And in the dark, dark room there was a dark, dark cupboard; And in the dark, dark cupboard there was ... a skeleton.
    FROM: Traditional, (None), NULL, NULL
• Richard Adams (1)
  • IN: Tales from Watership down (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Who dares wins.
    FROM: Motto of the Special Air Service, (1957), NULL, UK
• Agneta Pleijel (1)
  • IN: A Fortune Foretold (2017) Literary Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I see that you live a selfless life. You care for an older person, perhaps your mother, who is unwell. There is something within you that I cannot fully interpret. Perhaps it is in your mind, perhaps it is something outside you? There are other things that I see clearly. You will undertake a long journey, alone. You will meet a dark man. He is in a relationship, and you will have to endure a great sorrow. If you do this, the man will seek you out. You will be happy, and you will have two sons. You will die in a white palace, by running water.
    FROM: Unknown Fortune-Teller In the Late 1940s, (None), [NA], NULL
• Eric Ambler (2)
  • IN: The Levanter (1972) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Levanter 'n (Levant, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean, + - er) 1. A native or inhabitant of the Levant. 2. A ship trading to the Levant, rare. 3. A strong and raw easterly wind in the Mediterranean. Also fig. Levanter 2n (f. Levant v + - er) One who absconds, esp. one who does so after losing bets.
    FROM: Webster's Third New International and The Oxford English dictionaries, (1961), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Passage of Arms (1959) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: passage... 9. A mutual act or transaction; something that goes on between two persons mutually; a negotiation; an interchange or exchange of vows, endearments, or the like; an interchange or exchange of blows; encounter; altercation; a fencing; as in argument; as, a passage at or of arms.
    FROM: Webster's New International Dictionary, (1961), Definition, NULL
• Martin Amis (1)
  • IN: The Pregnant Widow (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: narcissism: n. excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one's physical appearance.
    FROM: Concise Oxford Dictionary, (1911), NULL, NULL
• Kim Barnes (1)
  • IN: In the Kingdom of Men (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let me have all things, let me have nothing.
    FROM: Wesley Covenant Prayer, (1936), Religious Text, NULL
• Jennifer Holm (1)
  • IN: Our Only May Amelia (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you don’t go, you can’t return.
    FROM: Finnish proverb, (None), Proverb, Finland
• Margaret Walker (1)
  • IN: Jubilee (1966) Ficton, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are climbing Jacob’s ladder We are climbing Jacob’s ladder We are climbing Jacob’s ladder for the year of Jubilee! Every round goes higher, higher Every round goes higher, higher Every round goes higher, higher to the year of Jubilee. Do you think I’ll make a soldier? Do you think I’ll make a soldier? Do you think I’ll make a soldier? in the year of Jubilee?
    FROM: Traditional Negro Spiritual, (None), NULL, US
• Ernest Cline (1)
  • IN: Ready Player One (2011) Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
    FROM: Anorak’s Almanac, Chapter 91, Verses 1-2, (2011), Fictional, NULL
• Elizabeth Wein (1)
  • IN: Code Name Verity (2012) Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Passive resisters must understand that they are as important as saboteurs.
    FROM: SOE Secret Operations Manual, “Methods of Passive Resistance.”, (1993), NULL, UK
• A. S. King (2)
  • IN: Ask the Passengers (2012) Fiction, Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: Know thyself.
    FROM: Ancient Greek aphorism, (None), NULL, Greece
  • IN: Please Ignore Vera Dietz (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is your original face, before your mother and father were born?
    FROM: Term in Zen Buddhism, (None), NULL, NULL
• Gill Paul (1)
  • IN: Another Woman’s Husband (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “We can be honorary sisters then,’ Wallis said, taking Mary’s hand. ‘Sisters who chose one another rather than ones we got stuck with because of the family we were born into. I like that idea…”
    FROM: NULL, (2017), Fictional, NULL
• Mariam Petrosyan (1)
  • IN: The Gray House (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The House sits on the outskirts of town. The neighborhood is called the Comb. The long buildings of the projects here are arranged in jagged rows, with empty cement squares between them— the intended playgrounds for the young Combers. The teeth of the comb are white. They stare with many eyes and they all look just the same. In places where they haven’t sprouted yet, there are the fenced vacant lots. The piles of debris from the houses already knocked down, nesting grounds for rats and stray dogs, are much more appealing to the young Combers than the empty spaces between the teeth. In the no-man’s- land between the two worlds— that of the the teeth and that of the dumps— is the House. They call it Gray House. It is old, closer in age to the dumps, the graveyards of its contemporaries. It stands alone, as the other houses shun it, and it doesn’t look like a tooth, since it is not struggling upward. Three stories high, facing the highway, it too has a backyard— a narrow rectangle cordoned off by chicken wire. It was white when built. It has since become gray, and yellowish from the other side, toward the back. It is bristling with aerials; it is strewn with cables; it is raining down plaster and weeping from the cracks. Additions and sheds cling to it, along with doghouses and garbage bins, all in the back. The facade is bare and somber, just the way it is supposed to be. Nobody likes Gray House. No one would admit it openly, but the inhabitants of the Comb would rather not have it in their neighborhood. They would rather it didn’t exist at all.~~
    FROM: NULL, (2009), Fictional, NULL
• Graham Hancock (1)
  • IN: War God: Nights of the Witch (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘Take care that they do not escape… Feed them well; let them be fat and desirable for sacrifice on the day of the feast of our god. Let our god rejoice in them since they belong to him’
    FROM: Priestly regulations, c. 1519, for securing and preparing victims for sacrifice in the Mexica capital city of Tenochtitlan, (1519), NULL, Mexico
• Molly Harper (1)
  • IN: The Single Undead Moms Club (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Becoming a vampire parent is like going through the infant phase with your firstborn all over again. You will be just as unsure of yourself, just as frightened. And at some point, someone will probably throw up on you when you least expect it.
    FROM: My Mommy Has Fangs: A Guide to Post-Vampiric Parenting, (2015), Fictional, NULL
• Brandy Purdy (2)
  • IN: The Boleyn Bride (2010) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life is but a cherry fair.
    FROM: A popular medieval English proverb about the transience of life, (None), Proverb, UK
  • IN: The Queen’s Rivals (2013) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: While I Lived, Yours.
    FROM: The inscription engraved inside the ring Katherine Grey sent her husband from her deathbed, (None), Inscription, UK
• Tim Powers (2)
  • IN: Expiration Date (1995) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thomas A. Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, whose honors have included having a New Jersey town and college named after him, received a college degree Sunday, 61 years after his death. Thomas Edison State College conferred on its namesake a bachelor of science degree for lifetime achievement.
    FROM: The Associated Press, Monday, October 26, (1992), NULL, US
  • IN: On Stranger Tides (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … And unmoor’d souls may drift on stranger tides Than those men know of, and be overthrown By winds that would not even stir a hair...
    FROM: William Ashbless, (1987), Fictional, NULL
• R. D. Blackmore (1)
  • IN: Lorna Doone (1869) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Not for me the land of Pelops, not for me a pile of gold, Be it to posses, not to surpass the winds in speed! But beneath this rock I'll sing, and those within my arms unfold, While I watch my sheep together toward Silican waters feed.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece?
• Caroline Bock (1)
  • IN: Lie (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The attacks were such an established pastime that the youths, who have pleaded not guilty, had a casual and derogatory term for it, "beaner hopping."
    FROM: The New York Times frontpage after the murder of a Hispanic immigrant on Long Island, (2009), Article, US
• Oliver Pötzsch (2)
  • IN: The Play of Death (2016) Thriller, German
    EPIGRAPH: The bi-bi-boogeyman, the boogeyman is back… He picks up little boys and girls and throws them in his sack.
    FROM: An old German nursery rhyme originally describing a demon or dwarflike monster, (None), Poem, Germany
  • IN: The Beggar King (2010) Thriller, German
    EPIGRAPH: Sobald ein Soldat wird geboren, sind ihm drei Bauern auserkoren. Der erste, der ihn ernährt, der andere, der ihm ein schön Weib beschert, Der dritte, der für ihn zur Hölle fährt. Whenever a soldier is born, three peasants are chosen for him: One to provide his fare, another to procure him a lusty wench, and a third one to go to hell in his stead.
    FROM: A Verse from the Thirty Years’ War, (None), NULL, Central Europe
• Joseph Bruchac (2)
  • IN: Wolf Mark (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Wolf I am. In darkness, in light. Wherever I search, wherever I run, wherever I stand, everything will be good...
    FROM: Cheyenne Scout's Song, (None), NULL, US
• Bonnie Jo Campbell (1)
  • IN: Once Upon a River (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My home is on the water, I don't like no land at all. Home is on the water, I don't like no land at all. My home is on the water, I don't want no land at all. I'd rather be dead than stay here and be your dog.
    FROM: "See See Rider", (1925), Song, UK
• Scott Pratt (2)
  • IN: A Crime of Passion (2014) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Statements, arguments, and remarks of counsel are intended to help you in understanding the evidence and applying the law, but they are not evidence. If any statements were made that you believe are not supported by the evidence, you should disregard them.”
    FROM: Tennessee Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions - Section 1.07, (None), NULL, US
• Ian Ross (1)
  • IN: Swords Around the Throne (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Te uero, Constantine, quantumlibet oderint hostes, dum perhorrescant… Cautior licet sit qui deuinctos habet uenia perduelles, fortior tamen est qui calcat iratos. But let our enemies hate you as much as they please, Constantine, provided that they are in terror of you… Certainly to keep one’s foes bound by pardon is more prudent, but it is more courageous to trample them down in their fury.
    FROM: Pangyrici Latini VI, (389), NULL, Italy
• Bruce Holsinger (1)
  • IN: A Burnable Book (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: At Prince of Plums shall prelate oppose A foun of three feathers with flaunting of fur, Long castle will collar and cast out the core, His reign to fall ruin, mors regis to roar. By bank of a bishop shall butchers abide, To nest, by God's name, with knives in hand, Then springen in service at spiritus sung. In palace of prelate with pearls all appointed, By kingmaker's cunning a king to unking, A magnate whose majesty mingles with mort. By Half-ten of Hawks might shender be shown. On day of Saint Dunstan shall Death have his doom.
    FROM: The Thirteenth Prophecy, from Liber De Mortibus Regum Anglorum ("Book of the Deaths of English Kings"), (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Gary Jennings (1)
  • IN: Aztec (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You tell me then that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish. Nothing remaining of my name, nothing remembered of my fame? But the gardens I planted still are young-- the songs I sang will still be sung!
    FROM: Huéxotzin Prince of Texcóco, (1484), Fictional, NULL
• Amanda Craig (1)
  • IN: In a Dark Wood (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My mother said, I never should Play with the gypsies in the wood; If I did, she would say, Naughty girl to disobey. Your hair shan't curl, Your shoes shan't shine, You naughty girl you shan't be mine. The wood was dark, the grass was green, Up comes Sally with a tambourine. I went to the river -- no ship to get across, I paid ten dollars for an old white horse, I up on his back and off in a crack -- Sally, tell my mother I shall never come back.
    FROM: Folk Rhyme, (None), Song, NULL
• Richard Crompton (1)
  • IN: Hour of the Red God (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the beginning there was no death. This is the story of how death came into the world. There was once a man known as Leeyio, who was the first man that Naiteru-kop brought to earth. Naiteru-kop then called Leeyio and said to him, "When a man dies and you dispose of the corpse, you must remember to say, 'Man die and come back again, moon die and remain away.'" Many months passed before anyone died. When, in the end, a neighbor's child did die, Leeyio was summoned to dispose of the body. When he took the corpse outside, he made a mistake and said, "Moon die and come back again, man die and remain away." So after that, no man survived death. A few more months elapsed, and Leeyio's own child died. So the father took the corpse outside and said, "Moon die and remain away, man die and come back again." On hearing this, Naiteru-kop said to Leeyio, "You were too late now, for through your own mistake, death was born the day when your neighbor's child died." So that is how death came about, and that is why up to this day, when a man dies, he does not return, but when the moon dies, it always comes back again."`
    FROM: "The Origin of Death", Traditional Maasai story, (None), Saying, Kenya
• Shashi Deshpande (2)
  • IN: A Matter of Time (1999) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Maitreyi,' said Yajnavalkya, 'verily I am about to go forth from this state (of householder).'
    FROM: Brhad-aranyaka Upanishad (II. 4.1), (-501), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: The Dark Holds No Terrors (1980) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: You are your own refuge; There is no other refuge. This refuge is hard to achieve.
    FROM: The Dhammapada, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Debby Dahl Edwardson (1)
  • IN: My Name is Not Easy (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, only for so short a while you have loaned us to each other. Because we take form in your act of drawing us, And we take life in your painting us, And we breathe in your singing us. But only for so short a while have you loaned us to each other.
    FROM: Father Aztec's Prayer, (None), NULL, NULL
• Spencer Ellsworth (1)
  • IN: A Red Peace (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The blond stars, the bleeding galaxy, spin in their orbits, wounds open to the cold, and only the cold cauterizes. The warlord burns the suns out, stepping from one to the other. The son of the stars faces the giants who stride the worlds, and he is armed but with faith...
    FROM: Third Book of Joria, (2017), Fictional, NULL
• Sanjay Kumar, V. (1)
  • IN: The Third Squad (2017) Mystery, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, “Why have you done this to me?” And the snake answered, “Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake.”
    FROM: Natural Born Killers, (1994), Film, NULL
• Gordon Ferris (1)
  • IN: Gallowglass (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Gallowglass (Gaelic: gallóglaigh): An elite Scottish mercenary warrior
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Tim Finch (1)
  • IN: The House of Journalists (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Graham Greene is one of the best-known writers in this country where you are unknown as a writer.
    FROM: NULL, (2013), Author, NULL
• Michel Faber (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
• Tibor Fischer (1)
  • IN: The Thought Gang (1994) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ***[Greek word] -- One's own countrymen
    FROM: Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, (1843), Book, UK
• Nuruddin Farah (1)
  • IN: From a Crooked Rib (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: God created Woman from a crooked rib; and any one who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it.
    FROM: A Somali traditional proverb, (None), Proverb, Somali
• Janet Frame (3)
  • IN: Living in the Maniototo (1979) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "One glance can annihilate the void dance. Looking away is the passion day by day, year by year the imitative act hot from the mould of the original fact, "until we can no longer contain the cry or live untouched in the house of replicas.
    FROM: Alice Thumb or Violet Pansy Proudlock or Mavis Halleton, (1979), Fictional, NULL
• Anne Phillips, Jayne (2)
  • IN: Quiet Dell (2013) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cost of Living, 1931 New house…………………….….. $6,796.00 Average income per year……...... $1,858.00 New Car…………………..………. $640.00 Average rent per month…….........$18.00
    FROM: Remember When…, A Nostalgic Look Back in Time, (1931), Book, US
• Lisa Howorth (1)
  • IN: Flying Shoes (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's a hard world for little things.
    FROM: The Night of the Hunter, (1955), Film, US
• Alex Hughes (1)
  • IN: Marked (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Once a telepath or any person with Ability is accepted by and accepts the Guild, he belongs to the Guild for the remainder of his life. He no longer pays taxes to any nation-state; he is not subject to its laws, cannot be tried in any court, and cannot accept employment except by consent of the Guild.
    FROM: Koshna Accords, section 33, paragraph 4.3, sentence 1 (called the "Once Guild Always Guild" section), (2014), Fictional, NULL
• M. K. Hume (2)
  • IN: The Bloody Cup (2010) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end.
    FROM: Beowulf, (1815), Poem, UK
  • IN: Web of Deceit (2013) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Do not hide that 'twas he was my heart's love, Whatso'er I love beside.
    FROM: Celtic poem, (None), Poem, UK
• Taylor Holden (1)
  • IN: The Sense of Paper (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Paper, a material made in thin sheets as an aqueous deposit from linen rags, esparto, wood pulp, or other form of cellulose, used for writing, printing, wrapping, and other purposes: extended to other materials of similar purpose or appearance, as to papyrus, rice paper, to the substance of which some wasps build their nests, to cardboard, and even tinfoil (silver paper): a piece of paper: a written or printed document or instrument, note, receipt, bill, bond, deed, etc: a newspaper: an essay or literary contribution, esp. one read before a society: a set of examination questions: paper money: paper-hanging for walls: a wrapping of paper, a quantity of anything wrapped in or attached to paper.
    FROM: The Chambers Dictionary, (1872), Definition, NULL
• Chuck Hogan (3)
  • IN: The Town (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This self-described Townie spoke . . . on condition of anonymity, describing what it was like to grow up in Charlestown. "I'm mighty proud of where I come from. It's ruined my life, literally, but I'm proud."
    FROM: The Boston Globe, March 19, 1995, (1995), Article, US
• Cate Holahan (3)
  • IN: The Widower's Wife (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Death in absentia The legal declaration of a death despite absence of direct proof of that person's demise, typically made after an individual has been missing for an extended period of time, often seven years. Such declarations may be made sooner if the missing person was involved in a presumably lethal accident before disappearing, such as a plane crash.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Bohumil Hrabal (1)
  • IN: Vita Nuova (1991) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What is meant to hang will not drown even if water should overrun the gallows
    FROM: Folk saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Suzanne Gates (1)
  • IN: The Glamorous Dead (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So you've envied those girls out in Hollywood with all the screen heroes to choose from.
    FROM: Photoplay, (1940), Other?, US
• Manuel Gonzales (1)
  • IN: The Regional Office is Under Attack (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Get out, get out of my sanctum and drown your spirits in woe.
    FROM: Pythia, the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, (-480), NULL, Greece
• Nadine Gordimer (1)
  • IN: A Sport of Nature (1987) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Lusus naturae -- Sport of Nature. A plant, animal, etc., which exhibits abnormal variation or a departure from the parent stock or type... a spontaneous mutation; a new variety produced in this way.
    FROM: Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, NULL
• George Washington (1)
  • IN: A history of the life and death, virtues and exploits of General George Washington : faithfully taken from authentic documents .. (1800) Biography, American
    EPIGRAPH: A life,how glorious, to his country led ! Belov'd while living, as rever'd now dead, May his example, virtuous deeds inspire ! Let future ages read it, and admire !
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Anuja Chauhan (1)
  • IN: Those Pricey Thakur Girls (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: in the backseat of an Ambassador car, four happy girls sing 'ten guitars' once so close, now living afar, Minni-Rubi-Nandu-Anuja
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Kent Haruf (1)
  • IN: Plainsong (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Plainsong -- the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times; any simple and unadorned melody or air
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Lauren Groff (1)
  • IN: The Monsters of Templeton (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Ah, my friend, 'tis true!" cried old Natty Bumppo, slapping his knee. "A man cannot know hisself if he don't know where he come from."
    FROM: Jacob Franklin Temple, The Pilgrims of Templeton, (2008), Fictional, NULL
• Stephen Penner (1)
  • IN: Winter's Law (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: (1) Prosecutions for criminal offences shall not be commenced after the periods prescribed in this section. (a) The following offences may be prosecuted at any time after their commission: (i) Murder
    FROM: Revised Code of Washington 9A.04.080 Limitation of Actions, (None), [NA], US
• Martha Perry (3)
  • IN: How Secrets Die (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Death isn’t the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live.
    FROM: Amish Proverb, (None), Proverb, US
  • IN: When Secrets Strike (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment. There are only consequences.
    FROM: Amish Proverb, (None), Proverb, US
  • IN: Where Secrets Sleep (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: he who has no money is poor; he who has nothing but money is even poorer.
    FROM: Amish Proverb, (None), Proverb, US
• Mark Henshaw (1)
  • IN: Red Cell (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's soverignity, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people... Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists under CHIANG KAI-SHEK fled to Taiwan. Over the next five decades, the ruling authorities gradually democratized. In 2000, Taiwan underwent its first peaceful transfer of power from the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) to the Democratic Progressive Party. The dominant political issue for both countries continues to be the question of eventual unification.
    FROM: CIA World Factbook, (1962), Book, US
• Gabriel Roth (1)
  • IN: The Unknowns (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I need the absolute control over my optic blasts that my ruby quartz visor affords me.
    FROM: Scott "Cyclops" Summers, X-Men 136, (1980), Comic, US
• Deborah Rodriguez (2)
  • IN: The Zanzibar Wife (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
    FROM: Swahili proverb, (None), Proverb, Swahili
• Tom Robbins (1)
  • IN: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It has been demonstrated that some amphibians are able to use celestial bodies for orientation.
    FROM: The Encyclopaedia Britannica, (1768), Book, NULL
• Kelly Robson (1)
  • IN: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach (2018) Fiction, Science Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The past is another country; we want to colonize it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary Renault (1)
  • IN: Funeral Games (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I foresee great contests at my funeral games.
    FROM: Reported deathbed words of Alexander the Great, (None), Speech, NULL
• Taylor Jenkins Reid (1)
  • IN: Forever, Interrupted (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every morning when I wake up I forget for a fraction of a second that you are gone and I reach for you. All I ever find is the cold side of the bed. My eyes settle on the picture of us in Paris, on the bedside table, and I am overjoyed that even though the time was brief I loved you and you loved me.
    FROM: Craigslist posting, (2009), NULL, US
• Anne Rice (1)
  • IN: Merrick (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: THE TALAMASCA Investigators of the Paranormal We Watch And we are always here. LONDON AMSTERDAM ROME
    FROM: Fictional namecard?, (2000), Fictional, NULL
• Novelisation by Holder, Nancy (1)
  • IN: Wonder Woman: The Official Movie Novelization (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A shimmering blue planet hangs in space. On it lives a true hero of the people. She is a legend, feared by some, beloved by others. It is her sacred duty to defend the world.
    FROM: NULL, (2017), Author, NULL
• Con Lehane (1)
  • IN: Murder in the Manuscript Room (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The city of New York Has erected this building To be maintained forever As a free library For the use of the people
    FROM: New York City, (1983), NULL, US
• Meera Lester (1)
  • IN: The Murder of a Queen Bee (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Speaking of flowers, behold the deadly beauties that hide in plain sight.
    FROM: Henny Penny Farmette Almanac, (None), NULL, NULL
• Craig Johnson (3)
  • IN: Another Man's Moccasins (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins..
    FROM: Old Indian Prayer, (None), Other?, NULL
  • IN: Death Without Company (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.)
    FROM: Basque Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: The Dark Horse (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: dark horse: noun 1 a: a usually little known contender (as a racehorse) that makes an unexpectedly good showing b: an entrant in a contest that is judged unlikely to succeed 2: a person who reveals little about himself or herself, esp. someone who has unexpected talents or skills
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Stephen Hunt (2)
  • IN: From the Deep of the Dark (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Go tell the passerby, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
    FROM: Epitaph carved at Thermopylae, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Jack Cloudie (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If you can smell the scent of death on the air and you do not know where the smell is coming from, then the smell is coming from you.
    FROM: Ancient Cass Arabian proverb, (None), Proverb, Arab?
• Winifred Holtby (1)
  • IN: South Riding (1936) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Take what you want,' said God. 'Take it - and pay for it.'
    FROM: Old Spanish Proverb (quoted in This Was My World by Viscountess Rhondda.), (None), Proverb, Spain
• Hamid (Bromfield, Andrew trans.) Ismailov (1)
  • IN: The Dead Lake (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Between 1949 and 1989 at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (SNTS) a total of 468 nuclear explosions were carried out, comprising 125 atmospheric and 343 underground blasts. The aggregate yield of the nuclear devices tested in the atmosphere and underground at the SNTS (in a populated region) exceeded by a factor of 2,500 the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the Americans in 1945.
    FROM: NULL, (2011), Author, NULL
• Melissa Jensen (1)
  • IN: The Fine Art of Truth or Dare (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: *That I am valuable, I know.
    FROM: NULL, (2012), Author, NULL
• Paul Levine (1)
  • IN: Last Chance Lassiter (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “The law is some tricky shit, isn’t it?”
    FROM: Geena Davis, Thelma and Louise, (1991), Film, US
• Lico Albanese, Laurie (1)
  • IN: Stolen Beauty (2017) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To every age its art; to art is freedom
    FROM: Secession Gallery Inscription, (1899), NULL, Austria
• Sarah Jio (1)
  • IN: The Last Amellia (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My destiny is in your hands. -- The meaning of the camellia flower, according to the Victorian language of flowers
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Doris Lessing (1)
  • IN: The Sweetest Dream (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘And people leave who were warm children’
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Kelly Link (1)
  • IN: Get in Trouble (2015) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Year after year On the monkey’s face A monkey face
    FROM: Basho, trans. Robert Hass, (None), Poem, Japan
• Annie Liontas (1)
  • IN: Let Me Explain You (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let me Explain You Something. We start from the same sea. This, We shall repeat.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jeannie Lin (1)
  • IN: The Sword Dancer (2013) Romance, American
    EPIGRAPH: Heaven and earth moved in tune with her rhythm. The sword flashed like Yi’s arrows that shot down the nine suns. She moved quickly and spiritedly like the dragon ridden by gods.
    FROM: Du Fu from “Observing the Sword Dance Performed by a Disciple of Madam Gongsun’, (None), NULL, China
• Anya Lipska (1)
  • IN: Where The Devil Can’t Go (2011) Mystery, British
    EPIGRAPH: The winter is yours, but the summer will be ours.
    FROM: Solidarnosc graffiti during martial law, Poland 1981-83, (1981), NULL, Poland
• Linda Joy Singleton (1)
  • IN: Magician's Muse (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.
    FROM: ...a modern Magician's Oath, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jane Smiley (3)
  • IN: Horse Heaven (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Runs all distances from 1,400 to 2,000 meters. Possible aversion to heavy going. Big galloper. Lots of drive, easy to manage, very much a racehorse. On the rise, and limits still unknown.
    FROM: Encyclopedia des Courses, (1984), Book, NULL
  • IN: The Greenlanders (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Afterwards they will find the chessman, marvelous and golden in the grass, just where the ancient gods had dropped them.
    FROM: "The Sayings of the Prophetess", (None), NULL, NULL
• Glendon Swarthout (1)
  • IN: Bless the Beasts & Children (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But where is the boy Who looks after the sheep? He's under the haystack, Fast asleep. Will you wake him? No, not I. For if I do, He'll be sure to cry.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jonathan Swift (3)
  • IN: A Tale of a Tub (1704) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Bafima eacabasa eanaa irraurifta, diarba da caeotaba fobor camelanthi.
    FROM: Iren. Lib. I. C. 18, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: A tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, an account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's library. (1704) Book, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Bafima eacabafa eanaa irraurifta, diarba da caeotaba fobor camelanthi
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• S. D. Sykes (1)
  • IN: Plague Lard (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The bubonic plague reached London in the autumn of 1348. Carried in the digestive tract of rat fleas, the Great Mortality went on to kill half the population of England in the following two years.
    FROM: A Disputation betwixt the body and worms, (None), NULL, NULL
• Susanna Tamaro (1)
  • IN: The Tiger and the Acrobat (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the radiant light that shines in the heart of man.
    FROM: Chandogya Upanishad, 3.13.7, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Katherine Webb (1)
  • IN: The Misbegotten (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How hard is the fortune of all womankind, Forever subjected, forever confined, The parent controls us until we are wives, The husband enslaves us the rest of our lives.
    FROM: The Ladies' Case, trad, C18th English Song, (None), Song, UK
• Jan Merete Weiss (1)
  • IN: These Dark Things (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In October the sowing of the wheat begins, and November honors that which lies beneath the ground awaiting rebirth; the dead return in a ritual visit to the cult of the dead, and the whole period between the beginning of November and Epiphany, is tempis terrible, in which the gates to the Afterworld remain open.
    FROM: Cardini, Franco, (None), I giorni del sacro: il libro delle feste, Italy
• Rebecca Wells (1)
  • IN: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Kathryn Williams (1)
  • IN: The Lost Summer (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Day is done, gone the sun From the hills, from the lake, from the sky. All is well; safely rest. God is nigh.
    FROM: "Taps", (None), Poem, NULL
• Marjorie Liu (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
• Yasmine Galenorn (3)
  • IN: Dragon Wytch (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Power Play: Bid for advantage: an attempt to gain an advantage by a display of strength or superiority, e.g., in a negotiation or relationship.
    FROM: Microsoft Encarta 2006, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: Counting Darkness (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Revenge does not long remain unavenged.
    FROM: German Proverb, (None), Proverb, Germany
  • IN: Harvest Hunting (2010) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
    FROM: Fifteenth-Century Proverb, (1450), Proverb, NULL
• Tim Winton (1)
  • IN: Cloudstreet (1991) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Shall we gather at the river Where bright angel-feet have trod...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Summer Wood (1)
  • IN: Raising Wrecker (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In this city, life happens in the street. A man walks out for a salami sandwich and comes back in love. A housewife turns into a taxi driver; a taxi driver trades his union card for some high heels and fishnet stockings --and nobody blinks an eye. Even the poor, beleaguered elms crack the sidewalks with their inspired reach for the sun. And since the year is 1965 and this city is San Francisco, home to saints and sinners and seekers of every stripe, it comes as no surprise for a young woman dressed in the madras skirt and flowing cotton blouse of a bohemian to lie back on a grassy stretch of Rolph Playground and give birth to a large, perfect, beautiful baby boy. Presto! Change-O! Become a mother.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Richard Wright (1)
  • IN: Uncle Tom's Children (1936) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The post Civil War household word among Negroes -- "He's an Uncle Tom!" -- which denoted reluctant toleration for the cringnig type who knew his place before white folk, has been supplante by a new word from another generation which says: -- "Uncle Tom is dead!"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• J. M. Lee (1)
  • IN: The Boy Who Escaped Paradise (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: New York Police Department officials said Saturday that a man in his fifties was found shot to death in a Queens home. Officers arrived on the scene around 2 a.m. in response to a 911 call reporting several gunshots. The victim, Steve Yoon, defected from North Korea and was granted asylum two years ago. According to reports, he was the head of Friends of Freedom, a human rights organization. Sources said that the victim's face had been wiped with antiseptic. Mysterious numbers and pictures were scrawled in blood around the body. Officials arrested an unidentified man at the scene. According to hospital sources, the suspect is in stable condition after being treated for a bullet wound to the thigh. Antiseptic and the victim's blood were detected on his hands, sources said. Officials are focusing on the victim's past employment at major North Korean government facilities. Upon arriving in the U. S. Yoon provided information about the secluded country's nuclear program. A police official said, "We aren't sure if this is a straightforward murder or something more. We are considering every possibility, including an act of retribution by North Korea to punish the information leak.
    FROM: "Man Found Shot to Death in Home in Queens", New York Daily News, (2009), Article, US
• Juli Zeh (1)
  • IN: Dark Matter (2010) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Few people master the art of fearing the right things.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Roger Zelazny (1)
  • IN: Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Generations pass away and others go on, since the time of the ancestors. They that build buildings, their places are no more. What has been done with them? I have heard the words of Imhotep and Hardedef, with whose sayings men speak so much. What are their places now? Their walls are crumbled, their places are non-existent, as if they had never been. No one returns from there, so that he might tell us their disposition; that he might tell us how they are, that he might still our hearts until we shall go to the place where they have gone. Make holiday and weary not therein! Behold, it is not given to a man to take his property with him. Behold, no one who goes can come back again.
    FROM: Harris 500, 6:2-9, (None), NULL, NULL
• Junichiro Tanizaki (1)
  • IN: Some Prefer Nettles (1955) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Every worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.
    FROM: Japanese proverb, (None), Proverb, Japan
• Greg Taylor (1)
  • IN: The Girl Who Became a Beatle (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beatles, The, British musical ensemble whose innovations brought unprecedented sophistication to rock music, and who symbolized the personal and political rebellion and search for identity of many adolescents and young adults of the 1960s. Formed in 1960 and dissolved in 1970, the group consisted of four Liverpool-born musicians: George Harrison (1943-2001); John Winston Lennon (1940-80); (James) Paul McCartney (1942-); and, after 1962, Ringo Starr (1940-), whose real name is Richard Starkey and who replaced Peter Best, an original member of the group. From the simple, fresh style of early songs such as "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (1962), the Beatles progressed to innovative, experimental works such as the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), admired for its dramatic unity, haunting harmony and lyrics, asymmetrical musical phrases and rhythms, and integrated use of electronic music techniques and Indian sitar sound. See also: ROCK MUSIC.
    FROM: Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Volume 3, (None), Book, NULL
• Jon Teckman (1)
  • IN: Ordinary Joe (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: [you are both] so much in my thoughts at all times especially when I am successful and have greatly prospered in anything, that the recollection of [you] is an essential part of my being.
    FROM: after Charles Dickens, (None), NULL, NULL
• Michael M. Thomas (1)
  • IN: Fixers (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The law doth punish man or woman That steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose That steals the common from the goose.
    FROM: seventeenth-century English rhyme, (1650), Poem, UK
• Jessica Thompson (1)
  • IN: Three Little Words (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Forgive vb to give up, cease to harbour (resentment, wrath)
    FROM: Oxford English Dictionary, (1884), Definition, NULL
• Kim Thúy (1)
  • IN: Ru (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In French, ru means a small stream and, figuratively, a flow, a discharge -- of tears, of blood, of money. In Vietnamese, ru means a lullaby, to lull.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Lucy Treloar (2)
  • IN: Salt Creek (2015) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: From the Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom erecting and establishing the Province of South Australia and fixing the boundaries thereof On the North the twenty sixth Degree of South Latitude On the South the Southern Ocean -- On the West the one hundred and thirty second Degree of East Longtitude -- And on the East the one hundred and forty first Degree of East Longtitude including therein all and every the Bays and Gulfs thereof together with the Island called Kangaroo Island and all and every the Islands adjacent to the said last mentioned Island or to that part of the main Land of the said Province... Provided Always that nothing in those our Letters Patent contained shall affect or be construed to affect the rights of any Aboriginal Natives of the said Province to the actual occupation or enjoyment in their own Persons or in the Persons of their Descendants of any Lands therein now actually occupied or enjoyed by such Natives.
    FROM: From the Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom erecting and establishing the Province of South Australia and fixing the boundaries thereof, (1836), NULL, Australia
• Hannah Tunnicliffe (2)
  • IN: A French Wedding (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A handful of love is better than an oven full of bread.
    FROM: Breton saying, (None), NULL, UK
• Jane Urquhart (1)
  • IN: Away (1993) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The three most short-lived traces: the trace of a bird on a branch, the trace of a fish on a pool, and the trace of a man on a woman.
    FROM: an Irish triad, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Jean-Christophe Valtat (1)
  • IN: Aurorarama (2010) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: It was shewed us by Vision in Dreams, and out of Dreams, That that should be the Place we should begin upon; And though that Earth in view of Flesh, be very barren, yet we should trust the Spirit for a blessing.
    FROM: A Blast on the Barren Land, or the Standard of True Community Advanc'd, Presented to the Sons of Adam by Henry Hotspur, Being a Platform to Plant the Waste Land Of the Northern Isles & Septentrional Parts, & to Restore the Regiment of Commonwealth, Printed in the Yeer 1649, (1649), NULL, NULL
• Jeff Vandermeer (2)
  • IN: Shriek: An Afterword (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We dwell in fragile, temporary shelters.
    FROM: Jewish Prayer Book, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Jeanette Walls (1)
  • IN: Half Broke Horses (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It was the great north wind that made the Vikings.
    FROM: Old Norwegian saying, (None), Saying, Norway
• Robert Jordan (10)
  • IN: A Crown of Swords (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There can be no health in us, nor any good thing grow, for the land is one with the Dragon Reborn, and he one with the land. Soul of fire, heart of stone, in pride he conquers, forcing the proud to yield. He calls upon the mountains to kneel, and the seas to give way, and the very skies to bow. Pray that the heart of stone remembers tears, and the soul of fire, love.
    FROM: From a much-disputed translatio of The Prophecies of the Dragon by the poet Kyera Termendal, of Shiota, believed to have been published between FY 700 and FY 800, (750), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Lord of Chaos (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule.
    FROM: Chant from a children's game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Dragon Reborn (1991) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be born among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows from out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of bonds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny.
    FROM: from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Fires of Heaven (1993) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With his coming are the dread fires born again. The hills burn, and the land turns sere. The tides of men run out, and the hours dwindle. The wall is pierced, and the veil of parting raised. Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
    FROM: -fragment from The Prophecies of the Dragon believed translated by N'Delia Basolaine First Maid and Swordfast to Raidhen of Hol Cuchone (circa 400AB), (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Eye of the World (1990) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died. And men cried out to the Creator, saying, O Light of the Heavens, Light of the World, let the Promised One be born of the mountain, according to the prophecies, as he was in ages past and will be in ages to come. Let the Prince of the Morning sing to the land that green things will grow and the valleys give forth lambs. Let the arm of the Lord of the Dawn shelter us from the Dark, and the great sword of justice defend us. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
    FROM: From Charal Drianaan te Calamon, The Cycle of the Dragon. Author unknown, the Fourth Age, (1990), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Great Hunt (1990) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered, and the Shadow shall lie across the Pattern of the Age, and the Dark One shall once more lay his hand upon the world of man. Women shall weep and men quail as the nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth. Neither shall anything stand nor abide . . . Yet one shall be born to face the Shadow, born once more as he was born before and shall be born again, time without end. The Dragon shall be Reborn, and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth at his rebirth. In sackcloth and ashes shall he clothe the people, and he shall break the world again by his coming, tearing apart all ties that bind. Like the unfettered dawn shall he blind us, and burn us, yet shall the Dragon Reborn confront the Shadow at the Last Battle, and his blood shall give us the Light. Let tears flow, O ye people of the world. Weep for your salvation.
    FROM: From The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon, as translated by Ellaine Marise'idin Alshinn, Chief Librarian at the Court of Arafel, in the Year of Grace 231 of the New Era, the Third Age, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Path of Daggers (1998) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.
    FROM: Old Seanchan saying, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Winter's Heart (2000) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: The seals that hold back night shall weaken, and in the heart of winter shall winter's heart be born amid the wailing of lamentations and the gnashing of teeth, for winter's heart shall ride a black horse, and the name of it is Death.
    FROM: From The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon, (None), Fictional, NULL
• Robert and Sanderson, Brandon Jordan (1)
  • IN: A Memory of Light (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was as blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.
    FROM: Aleth nin Taerin alta Camora, The Breaking of the World, (2013), Fictional, NULL
• Katharine Kerr (10)
  • IN: A Time of Omens (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the Inner Planes, Time as we know it no longer exists. This is why an omen may refer to things which we perceive as long over and done with as well as to things in process at the moment in which the omen is cast and to things which we have yet to perceive at all. Past, Present, Future-these states do not exist in the world from which an omen proceeds, yet there is no denying, of course, that they do exist in ours. . . .
    FROM: The Pseudo-Iamblicbus Scroll, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Daggerspell (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men see life going from a dark to a darkness. The gods see life as a death. . . .
    FROM: The Secret Book of Cadwallon the Druid, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Darkspell (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every light casts a shadow. So does the ~~dweomer. Some men choose to stand in the light; others, in the darkness. Be ye always aware that where you stand is a matter of choice, and let not the shadow creep over you unawares. . . .
    FROM: The Secret Book of Cadwallon the Druid, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Days of Air and Darkness (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The opposite of Rubeus in all things, thus generally an omen for good. Yet when it falls into the House of Lead, pertaining to matters of war, it does signify days of air and darkness, and an evil upon the land.
    FROM: The Omenbook of Gwarn, Loremaster, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Days of Blood and Fire (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of all the figures that give us omens in the element of Earth, this be the most dangerous and dissolute, unless it pertain, thanks to the overall reading of the map, to days of blood and fire. And should it fall into the House of Iron, then the loremaster must destroy the map immediately, proceeding no further, for naught good will come of peering into such a future.
    FROM: The Omenbook of Gwarn, Loremaster, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Black Raven (1999) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Always the sorcerer must prepare for hindrances and setbacks. Before any working of great length and import, he must spend long nights in study of the omens, for if the Macrocosm can find a way to defeat him, it will, preferring in its laziness the natural order over any change wrought by our arts, no matter how greatly that change will be to its benefit.
    FROM: The Pseudo-Iamblichos Scroll, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Fire Dragon (2000) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: The year 850. The gods saw fit to give our prince the victory, but never had we dreamt how high a price they would set for it.
    FROM: The Holy Chronicles of Lughcarn, (2000), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Red Wyvern (1997) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some say that all the worlds of the many-splendored universe lie nested one within the other like the layers of an onion. I say to you that they lie all braided and wound round and that no man nor woman either can map all the roads of their twisting.
    FROM: The Secret Book of Cadwallon the Druid, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Silver Mage (2009) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: The serpent of Time winds itself about the cross of Matter. Some say it has seven heads, some only three, but the difference counts for little. It is the body of the serpent, not the head, that crushes its prey.
    FROM: The Secret Book of Cadwallon the Druid, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Spirit Stone (2007) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: In some sense, every magician is a weaver, merely one who works with invisible strands of the hidden light. WIth it, we weave our various forms, just as a weaver produces cloth, and then stitch them into the images we desire, just as a tailor sews cloth into a tunic or robe. If we be journeymen in our craft, forces will come to buy the tunic and place it over his body. But if we have plumbed the secret recesses of our art, if we are masters of our craft, then we can both weave the forms and place our own bodies within them.
    FROM: The Pseudo-Iamblichos Scroll, (None), Fictional, NULL
• Kay Kenyon (2)
  • IN: A World Too Near (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Storm wall, hold up the bright, Storm wall, dark as Rose night, Storm wall, where none can pass, Storm wall, always to last.
    FROM: a child's verse, (None), Poem, NULL
  • IN: City Without End (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beside the storm wall, Ahnenhoon, Across the war plains, Ahnenhoon, Over the armies, Ahnenhoon, Around the Repel, Ahnenhoon, Under the grave flags, Ahnenhoon.
    FROM: A marching song, (2009), Fictional, NULL
• Drew Karpyshyn (1)
  • IN: Children of Fire (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: All things are born from fire. The flames of Chaos are the source of all life and all creation; the cause of all death and all destruction. The entirety of the mortal world was forged from the inferno of the Burning Sea, the Chaos shaped and bound by the power of the Old Gods to create an island of tranquility floating in an ocean of flame. First came the plants and trees. Next came the fish of the oceans, then the birds of the air and the beasts of the land. Finally, the Old Gods created woman and man, and they spread out to populate the newly formed world. But Chaos rebels against structure and order, and even the magic of a God cannot bind it forever. Nothing is eternal.
    FROM: Salidarr, founder and first Pontiff of the Order, (2013), Fictional, NULL
• Jeanne Kalogridis (1)
  • IN: Children of the Vampire (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: May your own blood rise against you.
    FROM: Ancient Wexford curse, (None), Saying, Ireland
• Sherrilyn Kenyon (1)
  • IN: Dark Side of the Moon (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He [the ravyn] is the warrior's bird of battle, exults in slaughter and carnage . . .
    FROM: Beowulf, (1815), Poem, UK
• Yejide Kilanko (1)
  • IN: Daughters Who Walk This Path (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day; little Eniayo and Morayo want to play.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• A. L. Kennedy (2)
  • IN: Day (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tha móran an so.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Everything You Need (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Mo rùn geal òg
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Matt Johnson (1)
  • IN: Deadly Game (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To appreciate harmony, we must know war. To value freedom, we must know slavery. To find peace, we must vanquish the Devil at his chosen game.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Darynda Jones (4)
  • IN: Eleventh Grave in Moonlight (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lord, help me be the sort of person my psychiatrist medicates me to be.
    FROM: T-shirt, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Fifth Grave Past the Light (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ask me about life after death.
    FROM: T-shirt often seen on Charley Davidson, a grim reaper of questionable morals, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Sixth Grave on the Edge (2014) Paranormal Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: A blank is the only thing I draw well.
    FROM: T-shirt, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Dirt on Ninth Grave (2016) Paranormal Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Remember, it's never too late to give LSD a shot.
    FROM: T-shirt, (None), NULL, NULL
• John Kelly (1)
  • IN: From Out of the City (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Mali corvi malum ovum
    FROM: Latin proverb, (None), Proverb, Italy
• Suzanne Kamata (1)
  • IN: Gadget Girl (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Who are you and what are you doing with that electric toothbrush?"
    FROM: Chaz Whittaker to Lisa Cook Gadget Girl, "Attack of the Zombie Ninjas", (None), Fictional, NULL
• Suchen Christine Lim (1)
  • IN: A Bit of Earth (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I, Wong Tuck Heng, was born on the fifteenth of the seventh moon in the seventh year of Ham Fung, in my native village of Sum Hor, in the Canton Prefecture of Kwangtung Province. My father was Wong Tin Keng, the village physician...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Audrey Chin (2)
  • IN: As the Heart Bones Break (2014) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: The labors of a father are as heavy as Thai Son Mountain Like water from its source a mother's love will always flow A filial son completes the circle With a devoted and respectful heart
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Vietnam
• David Hewson (1)
  • IN: The Blue Moon (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Richard Kadrey (1)
  • IN: Killing Pretty (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This isn't America, Jack. This is L.A.
    FROM: Hoover, Max (lt.), in Mulholland Drive, (1996), Film, US
• Garrison Keillor (3)
  • IN: Lake Wobegon Days (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dogs don't lie, and why should I? Strangers come, they growl and bark. They know their loved ones in the dark. Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Author, NULL
  • IN: Love Me (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As you travel day by day Along your earthly way Of the faces that you see Love Me. On the dark and stormy plain, In the wind and sleet and rain, Not a friendly house or tree, Just Me. I know you could do better If you shopped around. I'm just an old dead letter Waiting in the lost and found. I'm not smart or debonair, Not the answer to a prayer, But here's my simple plea: O darling My darling, Love Me.
    FROM: The Make Rites, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: We Are Still Married (1989) Short Story, American
    EPIGRAPH: My parents think I'm crazy, My kids think I'm bourgeois-- My true love thinks I'm wonderful, The handsomest she ever saw, And who am I to disagree With one so sensible as she?
    FROM: NULL, (None), Author, NULL
• Iris Johansen (1)
  • IN: Live to See Tomorrow (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who can say for sure that one will live to see tomorrow?
    FROM: Tibetan Proverb, (None), Proverb, Tibet
• A. R. Kahler (3)
  • IN: Martyr (2014) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We have no way of ~~fathomingthe evil these creatures posses, the malice in their hearts. Our only hope is the dying chance that they retain a semblance of humanity.
    FROM: President's Final Address Post-Resurrection, Week Two, (None), Fictional, NULL
• Mark & Warner, Charles Dudley Twain (1)
  • IN: The Gilded Age (1873) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 協力山成玉 同心坭變金 (By combined strength, a mountain becomes gems: by united hearts, mud turns to gold.)
    FROM: A maxim often painted on the door-posts of a Chinese firm -- which may be freely translated -- Two heads, working together, out of commonplace materials, bring The Gilded Age, (None), NULL, China
• Mark Greaney (1)
  • IN: Gunmetal Gray (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Stay low, go fast, kill first, die last, one shot, one kill, no luck, all skill.
    FROM: Unofficial Navy Seal Slogan, (None), NULL, US
• Robert Ryan (1)
  • IN: The Dead Can Wait (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Taten statt Worte, Zähne statt Tränen 'Deeds not Words, Teeth not Tears'
    FROM: Motto of the Sie Wölfe Special Naval Unit 1916-7, (None), NULL, US
• A. K. Shevchenko (1)
  • IN: The Game (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Only those who leave will return. If you want to come back, You have to leave first...
    FROM: Gypsy song, (None), Song, NULL
• Steven L. Kent (2)
  • IN: Redemption (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
    FROM: Nahum 1:5, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Clone Apocalypse (2014) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
    FROM: From the epitaph of Alexander the Great, (None), NULL, Greece
• Suzanne Johnson (1)
  • IN: Royal Street (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Friday, August 26, 2005 'Once [Tropical Storm Katrina] moved over the gulf today, it was expected to wheel north, pick up speed and hit the Florida Panhandle on Sunday.
    FROM: The New York Times, (None), Article, US
• Jesse Kellerman (5)
  • IN: Sunstroke (2005) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the heat of the day visions did tempt me
    FROM: The Book of Odd Thoughts, 1:3, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Brutal Art (2008) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: . . . a miror of smoke, cracked and dim in which to judge himself . . .
    FROM: The Book of Odd Thoughts, 13:15, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Genius (2008) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: . . . a miror of smoke, cracked and dim in which to judge himself . . .
    FROM: The Book of Odd Thoughts, 13:15, (None), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Executor (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Choose, said the Fool.
    FROM: The Book of Odd Thoughts, 17:19, (2010), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Trouble (2007) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: She spread a salve to soothe his aches He suffered from its bitter taste
    FROM: The Book of Odd Thoughts, 5:7, (None), Fictional, NULL
• Dianna and Kenyon, Sherrilyn Love (1)
  • IN: The Curse (2007) Fantasy Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cathbad the Druid doth bind Queen ~~Medb By vow thus struck with blood and blade Birth afore death and death afore birth The last shalt rise afore the first That by fair child of Findabair Medb queens shalt rule the tower lair Twenty score years and sixty-six days Not one more breath shalt they take Until such time the beast doth rise Of ancient blood and flame green eyes And bring to power a queen once more Immortal to rule as none afore.
    FROM: Prophecy of Cathbad the Druid, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Mari Jungstedt (1)
  • IN: The Dead of Summer (2007) Mystery, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: From the lighthouse-keeper's diary, the island of Gotska Sandön, August 1864 In the early-morning hour of 25 August, at ten minutes after midnight, on the south-east side of the island, the Russian steamship Vsadnik ran aground with a crew of one hundred and forty, of which three officers and twelve seamen drowned; all of the others were rescued. A hard easterly storm with rain.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Fictional, NULL
• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: The Flood (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
    FROM: Song of Songs, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Ishmael Reed (4)
  • IN: Juice! (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fox News Channel's Shepard Smith asked O. J. Simpson if he would take a lie-detector test. "I'm not going to be some dancing monkey for you guys," Simpson said.
    FROM: AP Online, (2000), Article, NULL
  • IN: Japanese by Spring (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Japanese are likened to the American Indian in their manner of making war. Our fighting men say that isn't fair to the Indian. He had honor of a sort. Moreover, even a dead Jap isn't a good Jap. His loving comrades mine him and set him.... Yet, such are the Nipponese. In death as in life, treacherous.
    FROM: The New York Times Magazine, (1942), Article, US
  • IN: The Terrible Twos (1982) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Confirming what many people already felt in their bones, the Commerce Department reported Sunday the rain-poor winter of 1980-1981 produced a slew of records and near records for the nation and nearly half the states.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
  • IN: The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gumbo, of all other products of the New Orleans cuisine, represents a most distinctive type of evolution of good cookery under the hands of the famous Creole cuisinières of old New Orleans. Indeed, the word "evolution" fails to apply when speaking of Gumbo, for it is an original conception, a something sui generis in cooking, peculiar to this ancient Creole city alone, and to the manner born. With equal ability the olden Creole cooks saw the possibilities of exquisite and delicious combinations of making Gumbo, and hence we have many varieties! till the occult science of making a good "Gumbo à la Creole" seems too fine an inheritance of gastronomic lore to remain forever hidden away in the cuisines of this old Southern metropolis. The following recipes, gathered with care from the best Creole housekeepers of New Orleans, have been handed down from generation to generation.
    FROM: "Gumbo À La Creole", The Picayune Creole Cook Book, (None), Book, NULL
• Mario Puzo (1)
  • IN: Omerta (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Omerta: a Sicilian code of honor which forbids informing about crimes thought to be the affairs of the persons involved
    FROM: World Book Dictionary, (1963), Definition, NULL
• Thomas Pierce (1)
  • IN: The Afterlives (2018) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The dog is on fire! She rips the cloth off the dining room table and chases him into the kitchen, but the dog slams into the cabinet, rattling all the china, and collapses on the floor at her feet, all his fur burned away. Her poor dog! How on earth did this happen? Her little dog is dead, and all she can do is scream for help.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Naomi Alderman (1)
  • IN: Doctor Who: Borrowed Time (2011) Science Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘Only in mathematics will we find truth.'
    FROM: Cardinal Borusa, (None), Fictional, NULL
• Sarah Pinborough (1)
  • IN: A Matter of Blood (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A thoroughly good person is as unbalanced as a thorougly bad one.
    FROM: Unknown, (None), [NA], NULL
• Tom Perrotta (1)
  • IN: The Abstinence Teacher (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Anf if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large mill-stone tied around his neck.
    FROM: The Gospel of Mark, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Caryl Philips (3)
  • IN: Higher Ground (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Lord plant my feet on higher ground
    FROM: Traditional, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: A State of Independence (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Six more days for PAM. Six more days for the first ever jackass Prime Minister in the world, for scavenger Powell, for rubbernose Morris and for the rest of that corrupt gang of vampires who have been sucking the life-blood of the people of St Kitts for the past four and a half years.
    FROM: St Kitts opposition newspaper The Labour Spokesman -- view of the government a week before the 1984 general election, (1984), Article, Saint Kitts
• Marlo Morgan (1)
  • IN: Mutant Message Down Under (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
    FROM: Cree Indian Prophecy, (None), NULL, US
• Amy Sue Nathan (1)
  • IN: The Glass Wives (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the glass shatters, who will be there to pick up the pieces?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sharona Muir (1)
  • IN: Invisible Beasts (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Animal life is mindful, and the mind's life is animal.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Thomas Mullen (1)
  • IN: The Last Town on Earth (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: An injury to one is an injury to all.
    FROM: Industrial Workers of the World slogan, (None), NULL, NULL
• Flann O'Brien (1)
  • IN: At Swim-Two-Birds (1966) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: ’E^tffraTai y«P Ait’ AXXi^uv Stx*
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Kate O'Brien (1)
  • IN: Mary Lavelle (1936) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Amor, yo nunca penssé aunque poderoso eras, Que podrias tener maneras Para trastornar la fe, Fastagora que lo sé. -- Canción.
    FROM: Juan II, (None), NULL, Spain
• Joseph O'Connor (1)
  • IN: Star of the Sea (2002) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The Missing Link: A creature manifestly between the gorilla and the Negro is to be met with in some of the lowest districts of London and Liverpool by adventurous explorers. It comes from Ireland, whence it has contrived to migrate; it belongs in fact to a tribe of Irish savages: the lowest species of Irish Yahoo. When conversing with its kind it talks a sort of gibberish. It is moreover, a climbing animal, and may sometimes be seen ascending a ladder laden with a hod of bricks.
    FROM: Punch magazine, London, 1862, (1862), NULL, UK
• Maggie O'Farrell (1)
  • IN: Instructions for a Heatwave (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: 4) (i) ... the only permitted use of water will be for: (a) Drinking, and or; (b) The washing of clothes or of the body, and or; (c) Both public and private toilets.
    FROM: Drought Act 1976 An Act to repond to water shortages and droughts in the United Kingdom, (1976), Act, UK
• P. A. O'Reilly (1)
  • IN: The Fine Colour of Rust (2012) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The Japanese have a word, sabi, which connotes the simple beauty of worn and imperfect and impermanent things: a weathered fence; an old cracking bough in a tree; a silver bowl mottled with tarnish; the fine colour of rust.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• William Henry Ireland (1)
  • IN: The Catholic, An Historical Romance (1807) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To every sect the Protestant's a friend By Heav'n instructed mercy to extend, Not so the Catholic; for he alone; Condemns unheard all tenets but his own, Hugs to his breast the hope of future grace, And hurls damnation on the human race.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Guy Gavriel Kay (1)
  • IN: The Last Light of the Sun (2003) Fantasy, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I have a tale for you: winter pours The wind is high, cold; its course is short The bracken is very red; The cry of the barnacle goose Cold has taken Season of ice; a stag bells summer has gone. the sun is low; the sea is strong running. its shape has been hidden. has become usual. the wings of birds. this is my tale.
    FROM: The Liber Hymnorum Manuscript, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Shehan Karunatilaka (1)
  • IN: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If a liar tells you he is lying, is he telling the truth?
    FROM: Liar's Paradox, (None), [NA], NULL
• Erika Johansen (1)
  • IN: The Queen of the Tearling (2014) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: THE GLYNN QUEEN--Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, seventh Queen of the Tearling. Also known as: The Marked Queen. Fostered by Carlin and Bartholemew (Barty the Good) Glynn. Mother: Queen Elyssa Raleigh. Father: unknown. See appendix XI for speculation.
    FROM: The Early History of the Tearling, as told by Merwinian, (None), Fictional, NULL
• Kristiana Kahakauwila (1)
  • IN: Wanle (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hawai'i is a cock-pit, on the ground the well-fed cocks fight.
    FROM: From the chant of Haui-ka-lani, (None), Song, US
• Elizabeth Jolley (1)
  • IN: Mr. Scobie's Riddle (1983) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ille terrarum mihi praeter omnes Angulus ridet. Horace with an explanation; One could say there is a corner of the world which smiles upon one but it is a little awkward, what about --- No cosy spot on earth caresses me more - or words to that effect. 'the word killeth but the spirit giveth life' Signed H. Hailey
    FROM: NULL, (None), Fictional, NULL
• Thomas E. Kennedy (1)
  • IN: Kerrigan in Copenhagen (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is forbidden to throw foreign particles in the VC bowl
    FROM: Notice on the Oslo boat, (None), NULL, NULL
• Amie and Spooner, Meagan Kaufman (1)
  • IN: Unearthed (2018) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are the last of our kind. We will not fade into the dark. We will tell our story to the stars and in this way we will never die - we will be Undying. Perhaps only the stars will hear us until we are nothing more than a memory. But someday a race will find the power we left behind - and they will be tested, for some things are better left unknown. Some stories left untold. Some words left unsaid. Some powers left alone. Ours is a story of greed and destruction, of a people not ready for the treasure they guarded. Our end came not from the stars but from within, from war and chaos. We were not, and never had been, worthy of what had been given to us. Within the mathematical cipher of this message lies a key to build a door into the aether. Beyond the door, beyond the aether, you will face your trial. The worthy, the chosen, will find the power we died to protect, and rise into the stars. Know that the journey is unending. Know that the dangers ahead will be many. Know that unlocking the door may lead to salvation or doom. So choose. Choose the stars or the void; choose hope or despair; choose light or the undying dark of space. Choose - and travel onward, if you dare.
    FROM: Excerpt from The Undying Broadcast (orig. "Unidentified Signal Alpha 312") decoded and transliterated by Dr. Elliott Addison, University of Oxford, (None), Fictional, NULL
• Philip Gwynne Jones (1)
  • IN: Vengeance in Venice (2018) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Vernissage [ver-nuh-sahzh; French ver-nee-sazh] 1. Also called varnishing day. The day before the opening of an art exhibition traditionally reserved for the artist to varnish the paintings. 2. A reception at a gallery for an artist whose show is about to open to the public.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
• Washington Irving (7)
  • IN: History of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty (1860) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: De waarbelb bie in buidter lag, Die fomt met flaarbeib aan ben baa.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Spectre Bridegroom (1819) Short Story, American
    EPIGRAPH: He that supper for is dight, He lyes full cold, I trow, this night! Yestreen to chamber I him led, This night Gray-steel has made his bed!
    FROM: The History of Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray‑Steel, (1711), Poem, UK
  • IN: Christmas (1820) Short Story, Literary Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: A man might then behold At Christmas, in each hall Good fires to curb the cold, And meat for great and small. The neighbors were friendly bidden, And all had welcome true, The poor from the gates were not chidden When this old cap was new.
    FROM: Old Song, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: The Stage-Coach (1820) Short Story, Literary Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: Omne bene Sine poena Tempua est ludendi. Venit hora Absque mora Libros deponendi.
    FROM: Old Holiday School-Song, (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: Traits of Indian Character (1820) Short Story, Literary Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: I appeal to any white man if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not to eat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.
    FROM: Speech of an Indian Chief (from a message sent by an Indian by the name of Logan to Lord Dunmore in Virginia around 1774), (1774), Speech, NULL
  • IN: John Bull (1820) Short Story, American
    EPIGRAPH: An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate. With an old study fill'd full of learned old books, With an old reverend chaplain, you might know him by his looks, With an old buttery-hatch worn quite off the hooks, And an old kitchen that maintained half-a-dozen old cooks. Like an old courtier, etc.
    FROM: Old Song ("The Old and Young Courtier"), (1827), Song, NULL
• John Roberton (1)
  • IN: A Treatise on Medical Police, and on Diet, Regimen, &c. (1809) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, wave, Hyoria! o'er Brittania's throne Thy serpent-wand and mark it for thy own; Lead round her breezy coasts thy guardian trains, Her nodding forests, and her waving plains; Shed o'er her peopled realms thy beamy smile, And with thy airy temple crown her isle!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sarah Beth Durst (1)
  • IN: The Lost (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Things I lost: a stick of Chapstick a few quarters one turquoise earring, a gift my old college roommate's new phone number my left sandal Mr Rabbit, my favourite stuffie from my preschool years my way
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Hallie Ephron (1)
  • IN: You'll Never Know, Dear (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sometimes a dream is your subconscious trying to sort out what happened when you were awake. Sometimes it's the universe trying to tell you something. And sometimes it's just a dream.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Chuck Palahniuk (1)
  • IN: Rant (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Do you ever wish you'd never been born?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ruth Park (1)
  • IN: Swords and Crowns and Rings (1997) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: In the landscape of spring there is netiher better nor worse; The flowering branches grow naturally, Some long, some short.
    FROM: An Old Chinese Saying, (None), Saying, China
• Cass Miller (1)
  • IN: Sunflowers Stillettos & Skinny Jeans (2012) Fiction, Romance Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We'll go walking after midnight; a lyric heard many a happy childhood day.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• China Miéville (1)
  • IN: Railsea (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Talpa ferox rex
    FROM: Great Southern Moldywarpe, (None), NULL, NULL
• Christine Middleton (1)
  • IN: The Witch & her Soul (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: When woman preach and cobblers pray The fiends in Hall make holiday.
    FROM: Lucifer's Lackey, (1647), NULL, NULL
• Somerset Maugham (1)
  • IN: The Narrow Corner (1932) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Melania G. Mazzucco (1)
  • IN: Limbo (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The dark night ends in light.
    FROM: Afghan Proverb, (None), Proverb, Afghan
• George R. R. Martin (1)
  • IN: The Armageddon Rag (1983) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, the way that Hendrix played Everyone was getting laid Dope was of the highest grade Those were the days Always knew who you could trust Cruising in your micro-bus They were them and we were us Those were the days All the things we're into then Tarot cards, I Ching, and Zen Mister, we could use a man like Timothy Leary again! Hardly needed any cash Everybody shared their stash Always had a place to crash Those were the days!
    FROM: Those Were the Daze, (None), NULL, NULL
• Emran Mian (1)
  • IN: The Banker's Daughter (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One of our favourite boutiques in Gemmayze, this is a meeting point for the creativity thriving in Lebanon. It brings together exclusive collections by eighty local designers. The clientele already includes models, television stars and singers. Now we're told that Hanna Mehdi, daughter of Mateen Mehdi, the former boss of IBCD, has become a big fan too. The father and daughter are reputed to be worth tens of millions of dollars and have been living in the nearby Saint-Michel hotel since the bank collapsed in 2006. Our girl in the know says Hanna made a whirlwind tour of the boutique last week and walked away with stunning pieces by some of Lebanon's best up-and-coming designers, including some very revealing swimwear. Summer is just around the corner and it seems that Hanna for one intends to enjoy it in style.
    FROM: Summer collections arrive at Le Balcon des Createurs, Time Out, (2008), Fictional?, Beirut
• Yann Martel (2)
  • IN: Self (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: to one who survived to another who didn't
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Graham Masterton (1)
  • IN: Broken Angels (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Is milis dá ól é ach is searbh dá ioc é 'It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.'
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, Ireland
• H. G. Wells (1)
  • IN: Love and Mr Lewisham (1900) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: [Illustration:] "Why on earth did you put my roses here?" he asked.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Arthur W. Pinero (1)
  • IN: The Profligate (1889) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “It is a good and soothfast saw; Half-roasted never will be raw; No dough is dried once more to meal, No crock new-shapen by the wheel; You can’t turn curds to milk again, Nor Now, by wishing back to Then; And having tasted stolen honey, You can’t buy innocence for money.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• W. B. Yeats (3)
  • IN: The Countess Cathleen (1892) Fiction, Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The sorrowful are dumb for thee
    FROM: Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: In dreams begins responsibility.
    FROM: Old Play, (None), Play, NULL
  • IN: The Countess Kathleen (1892) Drama, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The sorrowful are dumb for thee.
    FROM: The Lament of Morian Shehone for Mary Bourke, (None), Poem, Ireland
• Frank Wedekind (1)
  • IN: Earth Spirit (1898) Fiction, Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I was created out of ranker stuff By Nature, and to the earth by Lust am drawn. Unto the spirit of evil, not of good, The earth belongs. What deities send to us From heaven are only universal goods; Their light gives gladness, but makes no man rich; And in their state possession not obtains. Therefore, the stone of price, all-treasured gold, Must from the powers of falsehood be enticed, The evil race that dwells beneath the day. Not without sacrifice their favor is gained, And no man liveth who from serving them Hath extricated undefiled his soul
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• RJ Bailey (1)
  • IN: Safe from Harm (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We are looking for an experienced Female CPO/PPO/Driver OR an experienced Driver with a knowledge of security for our clients in North London. (The candidate gender restriction is due to cultural reasons.) You will be driving the new Rolls-Royce Ghost and MUST have previous experience driving luxury cars. * SIA accreditation essential. * You will be driving a young mother with one child who is schooled in London, with occasional duties for the father. * Your contracted hours are Monday-Friday 0730-1800 during school term times, with alternate weekends (flexibility essential). * 2-5 days at a time during the summer may be spent in Monte Carlo with possible short trips in the winter months to St Moritz. * To apply for this role you must have a London base and be flexible to adapt to the family and their needs.
    FROM: Advertisement in Personal Security magazine, (None), Advertisement, NULL
• Stephen Crane (1)
  • IN: The Monster and Other Stories (1898) Fiction, Anthology Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "If you ain't afraid, go do it then."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Fox Jr., John (1)
  • IN: The Kentuckians (1898) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Mart's a-gittin ready for a tournament."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Theodore Watts-Dunton (1)
  • IN: Aylwin (1898) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The mightiest Titan's stroke could not withstand An ebbing tide like this. These swirls denote How wind and tide conspire. I can but float To the open sea and strike no more for land. Farewell, brown cliffs, farewell, beloved sand Her feet have pressed—farewell, dear little boat Where Gelert,[Footnote] calmly sitting on my coat, Unconscious of my peril, gazes bland! All dangers grip me save the deadliest, fear: Yet these air-pictures of the past that glide— These death-mirages o'er the heaving tide— Showing two lovers in an alcove clear, Will break my heart. I see them and I hear As there they sit at morning, side by side. [Footnote: A famous swimming dog.] THE VISION _With Barton elms behind—in front the sea, Sitting in rosy light in that alcove, They hear the first lark rise o'er Raxton Grove: 'What should I do with fame, dear heart?' says he, 'You talk of fame, poetic fame, to me Whose crown is not of laurel but of love— To me who would not give this little glove On this dear hand for Shakespeare's dower in fee. While, rising red and kindling every billow, The sun's shield shines 'neath many a golden spear, To lean with you, against this leafy pillow, To murmur words of love in this loved ear— To feel you bending like a bending willow, This is to be a poet—this, my dear!'_ O God, to die and leave her—die and leave The heaven so lately won!—And then, to know What misery will be hers—what lonely woe!— To see the bright eyes weep, to see her grieve Will make me a coward as I sink, and cleave To life though Destiny has bid me go. How shall I bear the pictures that will glow Above the glowing billows as they heave? One picture fades, and now above the spray Another shines: ah, do I know the bowers Where yon sweet woman stands—the woodland flowers, In that bright wreath of grass and new-mown hay— That birthday wreath I wove when earthly hours Wore angel-wings,—till portents brought dismay? Shall I turn coward here who sailed with Death Through many a tempest on mine own North Sea, And quail like him of old who bowed the knee— Faithless—to billows of Genesereth? Did I turn coward when my very breath Froze on my lips that Alpine night when He Stood glimmering there, the Skeleton, with me, While avalanches rolled from peaks beneath? Each billow bears me nearer to the verge Of realms where she is not—where love must wait. If Gelert, there, could hear, no need to urge That friend, so faithful, true, affectionate, To come and help me, or to share my fate. Ah! surely I see him springing through the surge. [The dog, plunging into the tide and striking towards his master with immense strength, reaches him and swims round him.] Oh, Gelert, strong of wind and strong of paw, Here gazing like your namesake, 'Snowdon's Hound,' When great Llewelyn's child could not be found, And all the warriors stood in speechless awe— Mute as your namesake when his master saw The cradle tossed—the rushes red around— With never a word, but only a whimpering sound To tell what meant the blood on lip and jaw! In such a strait, to aid this gaze so fond, Should I, brave friend, have needed other speech Than this dear whimper? Is there not a bond Stronger than words that binds us each to each?— But Death has caught us both. 'Tis far beyond The strength of man or dog to win the beach. Through tangle-weed—through coils of slippery kelp Decking your shaggy forehead, those brave eyes Shine true—shine deep of love's divine surmise As hers who gave you—then a Titan whelp!— I think you know my danger and would help!— See how I point to yonder smack that lies At anchor—Go! His countenance replies. Hope's music rings in Gelert's eager yelp! [The dog swims swiftly away down the tide.] Now, life and love and death swim out with him! If he should reach the smack, the men will guess The dog has left his master in distress. She taught him in these very waves to swim— 'The prince of pups,' she said, 'for wind and limb'— And now those lessons come to save—to bless. ENVOY (The day after the rescue: Gelert and his master walking along the sand.) 'Twas in no glittering tourney's mimic strife,— 'Twas in that bloody fight in Raxton Grove, While hungry ravens croaked from boughs above, And frightened blackbirds shrilled the warning fife— 'Twas there, in days when Friendship still was rife. Mine ancestor who threw the challenge-glove Conquered and found his foe a soul to love, Found friendship—Life's great second crown of life. So I this morning love our North Sea more Because he fought me well, because these waves Now weaving sunbows for us by the shore Strove with me, tossed me in those emerald caves That yawned above my head like conscious graves— I love him as I never loved before.
    FROM: CAUGHT IN THE EBBING TIDE A REMINISCENCE OF RAXTOX CLIFFS, (None), Poem, NULL
• Silas Weir Mitchell (1)
  • IN: Hugh Wynne: Free Quaker (1897) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “IS IT YES OR NO, DARTHEA?"
    FROM: Illustrated by Howard Pyle, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ethel Lilian Voynich (1)
  • IN: The Gadfly (1897) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “What have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth?”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• L. Frank Baum (1)
  • IN: Mother Goose in Prose (1897) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "There was a little man and he had a little gun"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1)
  • IN: Madelon (1896) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Love is the crown, and the crucification, of life and proves thereby its own divinity.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Hilaire Belloc (1)
  • IN: The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Child! do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. Child, have you never heard it said That you are heir to all the ages? Why, then, your hands were never made To tear these beautiful thick pages! Your little hands were made to take The better things and leave the worse ones. They also may be used to shake The Massive Paws of Elder Persons. And when your prayers complete the day, Darling, your little tiny hands Were also made, I think, to pray For men that lose their fairylands.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, NULL
• Robert W. Chambers (1)
  • IN: The King in Yellow (1895) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead; Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.
    FROM: Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act i, Scene 2., (None), Play, NULL
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: Sylvie and Bruno (1895) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the goldern gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter idly to and fro. Man's little Day in haste we spend, And, from its merry noontide, send No glance to meet the silent end.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• George du Maurier (1)
  • IN: Trilby (1894) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Hélas! Je sais un chant d'amour, Triste et gai, tour à tour!"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ian Maclaren (1)
  • IN: Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There grows a bonnie brier bush in our kail-yard, And white are the blossoms on't in our kail-yard.'
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Miyuki Miyabe (1)
  • IN: The Book of Heroes (1811) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: To study the self is to die.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ann Claycomb (1)
  • IN: The Mermaid's Daughter (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The water is wide, I can't swim o'er. And neither have I wings to fly. Give me a boat that can carry two, And both shall row, my love and I. There is a ship and she sails the sea. She's loaded deep as deep can be, But not so deep as the love I'm in. I know not how to sink or swim.
    FROM: "The Water is Wide", (None), Folk Song, UK
• de Hahn, Tracee (1)
  • IN: A Well-Timed Murder (2018) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Mine honour is my life; both grown in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.
    FROM: Richard II, (1597), NULL, NULL
• Kimberly Elkins (1)
  • IN: What is Visible (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: [Diagram of Hand Symbols for Sign Language]
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jonathan Franzen (1)
  • IN: Purity (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...Die stets das Bōse will und stets das Gute schafft
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sophie Hannah (1)
  • IN: The Orphan Choir (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Vouchsafe, O Lord, To keep us this night without sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us. O Lord, let thy mercy be upon us: As our trust is in thee. Turn us again, thou God of hosts: Show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. O Lord, hear our prayer: And let our cry come unto thee. The Lord be with you; And with thy spirit. Let us pray. Give us light in the night season we beseech thee, O Lord, and grant that what we sing and say with our lips we may believe in our hearts and what we believe in our hearts we may show forth in our daily life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mohammed Hanif (1)
  • IN: Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: [Arabic] In every man dances a thief In every man dances a peacock
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• L. P. Hartley (1)
  • IN: Facial Justice (1960) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Every valley, every valley shall be exalted
    FROM: NULL, (None), Song, NULL
• Sarah J. Harris (1)
  • IN: The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder (2018) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: synesthesia noun 1. physiology a sensation experienced in part of the body other than the part stimulated 2. psychology the subjective sensation of a sense other than the one being stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of color
    FROM: Collins English Dictionary, (1979), Definition, NULL
• Lisa Scottoline (1)
  • IN: Damaged (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go farther, go together.
    FROM: African Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Peter Hoeg (1)
  • IN: The Elephant Keepers' Children (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In case you wish to befriend an elephant keeper, make certain to have room for the elephant.
    FROM: Old Indian Saying, (None), Saying, India
• Ann Hood (1)
  • IN: The Red Thread (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There exists a silken red thread of destiny. It is said that this magical cord may tangle or stretch but never break. When a child is born, that invisible red thread connects the child's soul to all the people -- past, present, and future -- who will play a part in that child's life. Over time, that thread shortens and tightens, bringing closer and closer those people who are fated to be together.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary Augusta Ward (2)
  • IN: Marcella (1894) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Marriage of William Ashe (1905) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "Just oblige me and touch With your scourge that minx Chloe, but don't hurt her much."
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Harold Avery (1)
  • IN: Soldiers of the Queen (1901) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: They shouldered arms, and looked straight before them, and wore a splendid uniform, red and blue.
    FROM: The Brave Tin Soldier, (None), NULL, NULL
• King Gillette (1)
  • IN: The Human Drift (1894) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There are clouds upon the horizon of thought, and the very air we breathe is pregnant with life that foretells the birth of a wonderful change. Darkness will cover the whole dome that encircles the earth, the storm will break, and from the travail of nature reason will have its birth and assume its sway o'er the minds of men.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• M. Yonge, Charlotte (1)
  • IN: Two Penniless Princesses (1891) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ’Twas on a night, an evening bright When the dew began to fa’, Lady Margaret was walking up and down, Looking over her castle wa’.’
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Sarah Wilkinson (1)
  • IN: Castle Spectre; Or A Ancient Baronial Romance (1807) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Hoh! wakest or sleepest, most gallant knight, Sing methglen, methglen hee; Now is the fittest time for flight, Sing methglen, methglen hee. 'Tis now beneath the western tower, A boat will take you from his power, And quickly set you free.
    FROM: A Welch Canzonet, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ann Hatton (1)
  • IN: Cambrian Pictures; Or Every One Has Errors (1810) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If that adversity, which arises from loss of fortune, fix our attachment stronger towards the friend that suffers, and force us to new efforts to assist him, the loss of innocence, when it happens from no habitual depravity, forms a much stronger motive to exertion, when those who have fallen struggle to raise themselves up.
    FROM: Sethos Book 8, (None), NULL, NULL
• Paolo Mantegazza (1)
  • IN: Testa (1887) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Sow ***(?) ideas that works may spring up.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mark Rutherford (1)
  • IN: Revolution in Tanner's Lane (1887) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “By diuers casis, sere parrellis and sufferance Unto Itaill we ettill (aim) quhare destanye Has schap (shaped) for vs ane rest and quiet harbrye Predestinatis thare Troye sall ryse agane. Be stout on prosper fortoun to remane.”
    FROM: Gwain Douglas’s translation, (None), NULL, NULL
• William Butler Yeats (1)
  • IN: Mosada (1886) Fiction, Play, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: And my Lord Cardinal hath had strange days in his youth.
    FROM: Extract from a Memoir of the Fifteenth Century, (1450), Memoir, NULL
• Pierre Loti (1)
  • IN: Le Mariage de Loti (1880) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "E hari te fau E toro te faaro E no te taata." The palm tree will grow, The coral will grow , But the man will perish.
    FROM: Old Saying of Polynesia, (None), NULL, NULL
• Silas Hocking (1)
  • IN: Her Benny (1879) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Perhaps while in our glowing grate The cheerful blaze is rising higher There's some one sitting desolate Without a spark of fire. Oh, what are we, that God hath blessed Our winter homes and made them glad, While other hearts are sore distressed, While other homes are sad?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Louis May Alcott (1)
  • IN: Jack and Jill (1879) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Jack and Jill went up the hill To coast with fun and laughter; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, NULL
• Hurrell Mallock, William (1)
  • IN: The New Paul and Virginia (1878) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Thou art smitten, o God, thou art smitten; thy curse is upon thee, O Lord! And the love song of earth as thou diest, resounds through the wind of its wings, Glory to man in the highest, for man is the master of things
    FROM: Songs before Sunrise, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary Louisa Molesworth (1)
  • IN: The Cuckoo Clock (1877) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Now, these little folks, like most girls and boys, Loved fairy tales even better than toys. And they knew that in flowers on the spray Tiny spirits are hidden away, That frisk at night on the forest green, When earth is bathed in dewy sheen— And shining halls of pearl and gem, The Regions of Fancy—were open to them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ambrose Bierce (1)
  • IN: The Fiend's Delight by Dod Grile (1873) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Rhoda Broughton (2)
  • IN: Nancy (1873) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: As through the land at eve we went, And plucked the ripened ears, We fell out, my wife and I, Oh, we fell out, I know not why, And kissed again with tears.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Good-bye, Sweetheart! (1872) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "Being so very wilful, you must go!"
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Susan Coolidge (1)
  • IN: What Katy Did (1873) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Six of us once, my darlings, played together Beneath green boughs, which faded long ago, Made merry in the golden summer weather, Pelted each other with new-fallen snow. Did the sun always shine? I can't remember A single cloud that dimmed the happy blue,— A single lightning-bolt or peal of thunder, To daunt our bright, unfearing lives: can you? We quarrelled often, but made peace as quickly, Shed many tears, but laughed the while they fell, Had our small woes, our childish bumps and bruises, But Mother always "kissed and made them well." Is it long since?—it seems a moment only: Yet here we are in bonnets and tail-coats, Grave men of business, members of committees, Our play-time ended: even Baby votes! And star-eyed children, in whose innocent faces Kindles the gladness which was once our own, Crowd round our knees, with sweet and coaxing voices, Asking for stories of that old-time home. "Were you once little too?" they say, astonished; "Did you too play? How funny! tell us how." Almost we start, forgetful for a moment; Almost we answer, "We are little now! " Dear friend and lover, whom to-day we christen, Forgive such brief bewilderment,—thy true And kindly hand we hold; we own thee fairest. But ah! our yesterday was precious too. So, darlings, take this little childish story, In which some gleams of the old sunshine play, And, as with careless hands you turn the pages, Look back and smile, as here I smile to-day.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Emily Spender (1)
  • IN: Restored (1872) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood.
    FROM: In Memoriam, (None), NULL, NULL
• von Sacher-Masoch, Leopold (1)
  • IN: Venus in Furs (1870) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But the Almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath delivered him into the hands of a woman.
    FROM: The Vulgate, Judith, xvi. 7, (375), Bible, NULL
• Eley Williams (1)
  • IN: Attrib. and other stories (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: To ATTRIBUTE. v.a. 1. To afcribe; to give; to yield as due. 2. To impute, as to a caufe. TROLMYDAMES. n. f. [Of this word I know not the meaning.]
    FROM: Dr. Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language, (1755), NULL, NULL
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1)
  • IN: Circe (1867) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Amour, fléau du monde, exécrable folie, Toi qu'un lien si f relè à la volupté He, Quand par tant d'autres noeuds tu tiens à la douleur, Si jamais, par les yeux d'une femme sana coeur. Tu peux m'entrer au ventre etm'empoisonner l'ame, Ainsi que d*une piale on arraohe une lame, Plutòt que comme un làche on me voie en souffrir, Je t'en arracherai, quand j'en devrais mourir.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1)
  • IN: Kapalkundala (1866) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Floating straight obedient to the stream.
    FROM: Comedy of errors, (None), NULL, NULL
• Jane West (1)
  • IN: The Loyalists: An Historical Novel (1812) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Preserve your Loyalty, maintain your Rights.
    FROM: Inscription on a Column at Appleby, (None), Other, NULL
• Charles Lyell (1)
  • IN: The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man (1863) Non-fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Everyman I will go with thee & be thy guide in thy most need to go by thy side.
    FROM: Everyman's LIbrary, (1932), NULL, NULL
• Baron Corvo (1)
  • IN: Hadrian the Seventh (1904) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: ὃπως μήτε ἀντιστήσει μόι μήτε ἓψει πορρωτέρω.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Julio Cortázar (1)
  • IN: Hopscotch (1963) Novel, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And moved by the hope of being of particular help to youth, and of contributing to the reform of manners in general, I have put together this collection of maxims, counsels, and precepts which are the basis of those universal morals that are so much a part of the spiritual and temporal happiness of men of all ages, states, and conditions, and of the prosperity and orderliness not only of the civil and Christian republic in which we live, but of any other republic or government that the most thoughtful and serious philosphers of the world might wish to contrive.
    FROM: Spirit of the Bible and Universal Morals, Drawn from the Old and New Testaments Put down in Tuscan by the Abbot Martini with footnotes Rendered into Castilian by a member of the Regular Clergy of the Congregation of San Cayetano of this Court With permission Madrid: Aznar, 1797, (1797), NULL, NULL
• Josephine Tey (1)
  • IN: The Daughter of Time (1951) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: Truth is the daughter of time.
    FROM: Old Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Susan Musgrave (1)
  • IN: Cargo of Orchids (2000) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: La verdad es una puta y hay que pagar. (Truth is a whore and you must pay for her.)
    FROM: Colombian saying, (None), NULL, Columbia
• Richard Condon (1)
  • IN: The Whisper of the Axe (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "I was sitting so close I could hear the whisper of the axe."
    FROM: Citizen Jacques Cerruti, at the execution of Marie-Antoinette, 16 October 1793, (None), Conversation, NULL
• Herbert Strang (1)
  • IN: Kobo: a Story of the Russo-Japanese War (1905) Adventure Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh! It is easy to cross the Yalu river.
    FROM: Japanese War Song, (None), Song, Japan
• David Belasco (1)
  • IN: The Girl of the Golden West (1905) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In those strange days, people coming from God knows where, joined forces in that far Western land, and, according to the rude custom of the camp, their very names were soon lost and unrecorded, and here they struggled, laughed, gambled, cursed, killed, loved and worked out their strange destinies in a manner incredible to us of to-day. Of one thing only are we sure -- they lived!
    FROM: Early History of California, (None), NULL, US
• Jakob Wassermann (1)
  • IN: Caspar Hauser (1908) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: Es ist noch dieselbe Sonne, die derselben Erde lacht; aus demselben Schleim und Blute sind Gott, Mann und Kind gemacht. Nichts geblieben, nichts geschwunden, alles jung und alles alt, Tod und Leben sind verbunden, zum Symbol wird die Gestalt. (It is still the same sun the same earth laughs; from the same mucus and blood are God, man and child made. Nothing remained, nothing disappeared, everything is young and everything is old, Death and life are connected, the symbol becomes the shape.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Alexandre Bisson (1)
  • IN: Madame X (La Femme X) (1908) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, Spring of days long ago, blooming and bright, Far have you fluttered away! No more the skies azure light, caroling birds Waken and glisten for me! Bearing all joy from my heart—Loved one! How far from my life hast thou flown! Vainly to me does the springtime return! It brings thee never again—Dark is the sun! Dead are the days of delight! Cold is my heart and as dark as the grave! Life is in vain—evermore
    FROM: ELEGIE (From the French of Massenet), (None), Poem, France
• NULL (13)
  • IN: NULL (1909) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: O incredulite, the wit of fooles That slovenly will spit on all thinges faire, The coward's castle and the sluggard's cradle, How easy 'tis to be an infidel!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The believer's farewel to the world, or, an elegie on the death of that much honoured, truly worthy, and religious gentleman Sir Robert Hamilton Son to Sir Thomas Hamilton, of Prestoun who dyed upon the 21st. of October 1701. Aged 51 Years. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: christiadum mors est lachrymosa terminus aevi ducit ad aetheres baec via sola vias
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The fable of the cuckoo: or, the sentence on the ill bird that defiled his own nest. Shewing, in a dissenter's dream, some satyrical reflections, on a late infamous libel, call'd, The true-born Englishman. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Survey the Globe, no nation bears a Name,/ That has not heard Renown'd Britannia's Fame,/ Who long has th' Darling of the World been call'd,/ And her blest Sons for Arts and Arms extoll'd:/ Her Senate in August Assembly met,/ Shew a diffusive Power, so Nobly Great,/ Such Justice, WIsdom, Themes for Sacred Story:/ Envy may Cloud, but ne'er Eclipse her Glory.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, NULL
  • IN: The heaven-Drivers. A poem. (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: in nomine domini incipit omne malum
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: The triumph of the great L-d S- (1701) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Magnanimum Aeacidam, formidatamq; Tonanti ------- Progeniem, &c.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Courtnay Earl of Devonshire; or, the troubles of the Princess Elizabeth. A tragedy. Comprehending a great part of the reign of Queen Mary, with the death of Jane Gray. (1705) Play, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Quod non dat Historia dabit Histrionia
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: A net for the d---l: or, the town display'd. A satyr. Written in a plain English stile (1705) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Since all the Town with Writing is possest, I'll Verify in spight, and do my Best, To make as much wast Paper as the Rest.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The Morning of Life: a Memoir of Miss A (1851) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oh! Jesus, could we always keep Our eyes on Thee, the living way, We then, though now but wand'ring sheep, Should no more err, or go astray; But wheresoe'er Thou goest, we Would follow on most cheerfully.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The flight of the pretender, with advice to the poets. A poem, in the Arthurical, Jobical, Elizabethecal style and phrase of the sublime poet Maurus. (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Quoquo Disfugias pavens Mabili, Nostrum non poteris latare Nasum
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Alexander Pennecuik (1)
  • IN: A pastoral poem sacred to the memory of the Honourable Lord Basil Hamilton. By A. P. (1701) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: in prose or verse seldom that we can paint to the life the frailty of man
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1)
  • IN: Any Thing For Sport (1857) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Be merry and wise.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Edward Ward (2)
  • IN: The kentish fable of the lion and the foxes. Or, the honesty of the Kentish petition made manifest. To which is added, The old game play'd over again: or, the mystery of iniquity reviv'd: being a collection of some speeches and debates of the House of Commons in the year 1627 and 1628. (1701) Book, British
    EPIGRAPH: When Common Danger needs Supplies,The Lion Craves, the Herd Denies, And Prey on his Necessities
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: The third volume, consisting of poems on divers subjects: Viz. The I, II, and III Parts of the Journey to H-The Charitable Citizen. All Men Mad. Helter Skelter. Honesty in Distress. A Satyr against Wine. A Poem in Praise of Small-Beer On the Success of the Duke of Marlborough. Fortune's Bounty. A Protestant Scourge. A Musical Entertainment. A Satyr against the Corrupt use of Money. A Dialogue between Britanniae and Prudence. The Libertine's Choice. With several other Poems never before Printed. By the author of the London Spy. (1706) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Non laudem quaero, nec culpani timeo.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, NULL
• John Dunton (2)
  • IN: The new Quevedo. Or, a vision of Charon's passengers: from the creation of the world, down to this present year 1702. (1702) Book, British
    EPIGRAPH: More Truth the Dio Duebedo never spake, For new Duebedo Dreams like one Awake
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Dunton's whipping-post: or, a satyr upon every body. To which is added, a panegyrick on the most deserving gentlemen and ladies in the three kingdoms. With the whoring-pacquet: or, news of the St-ns and kept M-s's. Vol.I. (1706) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: You do not Jerk the Times; are like the Fleas, You bite the Skin, but leap from the Disease.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• William Clarke (1)
  • IN: The Boy's Own Book: A Complete Enclyclopædia of Sports and Pastimes; Athletic, Scientific, and Recreative (1868) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A playground is an emblem of the world; Its gamesome boys are men in miniature; The most important action of the man May find its parody 'mong childhood's sports; And life itself, when longest, happiest In boyhood's brief and jocund holiday.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mrs. Humphry Ward (1)
  • IN: Canadian Born (1910) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I can see the farmers seeding By the brown Assiniboine, And a turnin' prairie gumbo Into heaps of shining coin. In the foothills of the Rockies I can see the steers at rest, And that's why in old Toronto I'm a-pinin' for the West. Where the sparkling sunbeams glance All across the wide expanse And the ozone in the breezes Makes your pulse throb and dance. On the road to Rupert's Land Are the boys that understand. For in spring their feet are turning To that free and fertile land. I can see the smacks a-fishing On Lake Winnipeg so wide, And the lumber steamers loading By the humming sawmill's side. I can see the silent redmen As they row the livelong day In the big fur-laden York boats On the road to Hudson Bay. And the lonely miners stand To wash out the golden sand And the summer throw her lilies Like a garment o'er the land. On the road to Rupert's Land Are the girls that understand, For when nations are a-building You will find them close at hand. Put me somewhere west of Selkirk When the prairie roses bloom, Where you run clean out o' fences. And a man has elbow room. Let me ride upon the pilot When the first through train goes out, Let me hear the settlers welcome it With joyous ringing shout. Let me be upon the prairie When they start a baby town, When they're living under canvas While the first mud-sills go down ; For it rarely stirs the bloos To see the cities in the bud And to feel a nation growing From that sticky prairie mud. On the road to Rupert's Land You will find a mighty band, For they're going West by thousands Now they've come to understand.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, NULL
• Kathleen Thompson Norris (1)
  • IN: Mother (1911) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As years ago we carried to your knees The tales and treasures of eventful days, Knowing no deed too humble for your praise, Nor any gift too trivial to please, So still we bring, with older smiles and tears, What gifts we may, to claim the old, dear right; Your faith, beyond the silence and the night, Your love still close and watching through the years.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Mary Kirby Kirby, Elizabeth (1)
  • IN: Truth is Always Best, or, The Fatal Necklace (1860) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A fault confessed is half redressed.
    FROM: NULL, (1550), Proverb, NULL
• Anna Martin Hinderer (4)
  • IN: Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country: Memorials of Anna Hinderer, Wife of the Rev. David Hinderer, C. M. S. Missionary in Western Africa: With an Introduction by Richard B. Hone (1877) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Look not behind; seek to recal no more The long dark shadows of past grief and fear; Look not beyond, thou canst not see the shore Now through the gloom, yet may the port be near. Let vain regrets and sea forebodings cease, He will give strength and peace.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Elkanah Settle (1)
  • IN: Carmen irenicum. The happy union of the two East-India companies. An heroick poem. (1702) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Vis unita fortior
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, NULL
• John Stearne (1)
  • IN: The death and burial of John Asgill, Esq;: with Some other Verses Occasion'd by His Books. (1702) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Some great Authors have told me, That the best Way of handling an Artificial tool, is, to do it in his own Kind: and to laugh him into Discretion, wou'd be the most proper Expedient to recover him from his folly.
    FROM: Rational Evidence of a Future World, (None), NULL, NULL
• Susanna Centlivre (1)
  • IN: The stolen heiress or the Salamanca doctor outplotted. A comedy. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties Servants. (1703) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Nihil dictum quod non ante dictum
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, NULL
• Samuel Garth (2)
  • IN: The dispensary. A poem. In six canto's. (1703) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quod licet, libet.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, NULL
  • IN: he dispensary. A poem. In six canto's. (1706) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Quod licet, libet.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Eliot Warburton (1)
  • IN: The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Volume I. (1846) Non-Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The blue steel bit, through helmet split, And red the harness painted; The virgins long lamented it, But the dogs were well contented With the slaughter of that day.
    FROM: Scandinavian Rune, (None), Inscription, NULL
• Charles Boyle Orrery (1)
  • IN: As you find it. A comedy. As it is acted at the New-Theatre, in Little-Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, by Her Majesty's servants. (1703) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: Qui Capit ille facit.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, NULL
• W.B (1)
  • IN: Ingenii fructus: or, the Cambridge jests; being youth's recreation. (1703) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: If these Grand Truths don't ev'ry Humour fit, Let Fops like me, ne'er nibble more at Wit.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Thomas Baker (1)
  • IN: An act at Oxford. A comedy. By the author of The yeoman o' Kent. (1704) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Vicit vim virtus
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, NULL
• David Craufurd (1)
  • IN: Love at first sight. A comedy, acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties servants. Written by David Craufurd, gent. (1704) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Solum Primos da Versibus annos.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Molière (2)
  • IN: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, or, Squire Trelooby. Acted at the Subscription Musick at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. March 30. 1704. By Select Comedians from both Houses. Done into English from a Comedy of Moliere's, which was made and perform'd at Chambord for the Diversion of the French King, in the Year 1679. (1704) Play, French
    EPIGRAPH: Lector fastidiosus sibi molestus
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, NULL
  • IN: Tartuffe: or, the French Puritan. A comedy, Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written in French by Moliere, and Render'd into English, with much Addition and Advantage, By M. Medbourne, Servant to His Royal Highness. (1707) Play, French
    EPIGRAPH: Invidia est pdium alienae felicitatis: Respectu Superiorum, quia eis non equatur; Respectu inferiorum, ne sibi aequentur; Respectu parium, quia sibi aequantur.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Colley Cibber (1)
  • IN: The careless husband. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, by Her Majesty's servants. Written by C. Cibber. (1705) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: Qui Capit ille facit.
    FROM: NULL, (1824), Saying, NULL
• Thomas D'Urfey (1)
  • IN: An essay towards the theory of the intelligible world. Intuitively considered. Designed for forty-nine parts. Part III. Consisting of a Preface, a Post-Script, and a little something between. By Gabriel John. Enriched with a Faithful Account of his Ideal Voyage, and Illustrated with Poems by several Hands, as likewise with other strange things not insufferably Clever, nor furiously to the Purpose. (1705) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Should all Mankind be mad but I? You that are wisest tell me why.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• William Pittis (1)
  • IN: A hymn to confinement. Written by the Author of the Case of the Church of England's Memorial fairly stated; &c. while in Durance. Fit to be stitch'd up with the said Pamphlet. To which is added, a poem on the same Subject by the Famous Sir Roger L'Estrange, when in Newgate, in the Days of Oliver's Usurpation. (1705) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Numquam minus solus, quan cum solus
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, NULL
• William Temple (1)
  • IN: Miscellanea. The second part. In four essays. I. Upon antient and modern learning. II. Upon the gardens of Epicurus. III. Upon heroick virtue. IV. Upon poetry. By Sir William Temple Baronet. (1705) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Juvat antiquos accedere Fontes.
    FROM: NULL, (1690), Author, UK
• Mary Saxby (1)
  • IN: Memoirs of a Female Vagrant: written by herself (1806) Book, British
    EPIGRAPH: One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Proverb, UK
• Robert Scott (1)
  • IN: The life of Robert Scott, journeyman wright: from his infancy to the present time, being a space of seventy years, in verse: written by himself; with observations, moral and religious in London, NewCastle, Morpeth, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Falkland (1801) Book, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: By this I'd have it understood, My brains have long been beat with wood; My arms worn out with driving planes, I now begin to beat my brains, To search each crannie there for bread, Age makes me now give up the trade; Please buy my book, you'll not repent, By age you now many learn content.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Pierre Villiers (1)
  • IN: Female falshood: or, the unfortunate beau. Being the amorous memoirs of a late French nobleman. Written by himself in his retirement, and digested by Monsieur St. Evremont. Made English. (1705) Book, French
    EPIGRAPH: Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum
    FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, Italy
• R. Withy (1)
  • IN: Woman: a Fragment (1758) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Albeit it appertaineth not unto the Multitude to pronounce craftylie of lernid Tractates. This seemeth He rude of Letters to discern; and sith ornate Science he found Wisdom in any wife meet for the TIME, lo! a Proloug concernynge WOMANHUD, devised as a Gew-gaw ryghte wele befittynge!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Richard Estcourt (1)
  • IN: The fair example: or the modish citizens. A comedy. As it was acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. (1706) Play, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Architect must on dull order wait, But tis the Poet only can create. Majestick Columns stand where Dunghils lay, And Cars Triumphant rise from Carts of Hay
    FROM: Prologue to the Hay Market, (None), [NA], NULL
• Margaret Graves Derenzy (2)
  • IN: A Whisper to a Newly-Married Pair, from a Widowed Wife (1833) Book, American
    EPIGRAPH: Art thou my wife? — is this kind Heaven's decree? Then let me prize what Heaven design'd for me!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Richard Franck (1)
  • IN: The admirable and indefatigable adventures of the nine pious pilgrims, ... Written in America, in a time of solitude ... by a zealous lover of truth, ... (1707) Book, British
    EPIGRAPH: The nearest way to Heaven is by the Cross; And Heaven once gain'd, to lose this World's no lost.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Thomas Sherman (1)
  • IN: Youth's tragedy, a poem. Drawn up by way of dialogue between Youth. The Devil. Wisdom. Time. Death. The Soul. The Nuncius. For the caution, and direction of the younger sort. (1707) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Frange toros, pete vina, rosas cape, tingere nardo, Fraena voluptati laxa, tua tempora vanae Laetitiae voveas, tamen hoc Sub mente revolvas, Divinam ad Stygias Nemesin te poscere paenas.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Charles Bland (1)
  • IN: The art of rhetorick, as to pronunciation; explain'd : and familiarly adapted to the capacities of school-boys, by way of question and answer; in English. (1708) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Aliud est loqui; Aliud eloqui.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Joseph Browne (1)
  • IN: St. James's Park: a satyr. (1708) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Non mihi si Linguae Centum sint,Oraq; Centum Ferrea Vox, omnes Fatuorum evolvere Formas, Omnia Stutitiae percurrere Nomina possum.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• J. Gaynam (1)
  • IN: Marlborough still conquers: or, Union hath got the Day. A poem, Upon the late victory obtained by the Prince and Duke of Marlborough; And Union of the Two Kingdoms. By J. Gatnam. (1708) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Quod si quando uniantur duo populli, non amittentur Jura, sed communicabuntur, sicut Sabinorum primo, diende Albanorum Jus in Romanos transfusum est & unafacta Respublica.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Charles Leslie (1)
  • IN: A view of the times, their principles and practices (1708) Book, British
    EPIGRAPH: Magna est Veritas, & Praevalebit. Et me, Qui Sidera fulcit.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Nahum Tate (1)
  • IN: A consolatory poem to the Right Honourable John Lord Cutts, upon the death of his most accomplish'd lady. (1708) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Requies quondam Spesq; unica Vitae, Nunc Dolor, aeternusq; imo sub Pectore Luctus.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL