Author: Nelson DeMille

Cites

• Alfred Tennyson (2)
  • IN: The Quest (1975) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “What is it? The phantom of a Cup which comes and goes?” “Nay, monk! What phantom?” answered Perceval. “The Cup, the Cup itself, from which our Lord Drank at the last sad supper with his own. This, from the blessed land of Aromat… Arimathaean Joseph, journeying brought To Glastonbury… And there awhile it bode; and if a man Could touch or see it, he was heal’d at once, By faith, of all his ills. But then the times Grew to such evil that the Holy Cup Was caught away to Heaven and disappear’d.”
    FROM: The Holy Grail, (1869), Poem, UK
• Walt Whitman (1)
  • IN: Gold Coast (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
    FROM: Preface to Leaves of Grass, (1855), Book, US
• Washington Irving (1)
  • IN: The Gate House (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How beauteous is this garden; where the flowers of the earth vie with the stars of heaven. What can compare with the vase of yon alabaster fountain filled with crystal water? Nothing but the moon in her fulness, shining in the midst of an unclouded sky!
    FROM: Inscription on a wall of Alhambra Castle, Granada, Spain From Washington Irving, The Alhambra (Tales of the Alhambra), (1832), Book, US
• NULL (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
• Benjamin Franklin (1)
  • IN: Plum Island (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
    FROM: Poor Richard's Almanac, (1735), Book, US
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: Night Fall (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me.
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: The General's Daughter (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living
    FROM: Little Gidding, Four Quartets, (1839), Poem, UK
• Marquis de Custine (1)
  • IN: The Charm School (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whenever you are unhappy, go to Russia. Anyone who has come to understand that country will find himself content to live anywhere else.
    FROM: Marquis de Custine Russia in 1839, (1839), Book, Russia
• Georges Braque (1)
  • IN: Up Country (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Cavafy (1)
  • IN: Spencerville (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The barbarians are to arrive today. Why such inaction in the Senate? Why do the Senators sit and pass no laws? Because the barbarians are to arrive today. What further laws can the Senators pass? ... night is here but the barbarians have not come. And some people arrived from the borders, and they said that there are no longer any barbarians. And now what shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.
    FROM: Expecting the Barbarians, (1904), Poem, Egypt