Author: Nora Roberts

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• Robert Burton (1)
  • IN: Blood Brothers (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
    FROM: The Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621), Book, UK
• John Milton (1)
  • IN: Blood Brothers (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.
    FROM: Paradise Regained, (1671), Poem, UK
• Lena Guilbert Ford (1)
  • IN: The Hollow (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Keep the home fires burning.
    FROM: "Keep the Home Fires Burning", (1914), Song, US
• Samuel Johnson (1)
  • IN: The Hollow (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
    FROM: The Rambler, (1750), Book, UK
• Bible (4)
  • IN: The Pagan Stone (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where there is no vision, the people perish.
    FROM: Bible, PROVERBS 29:18, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Black Hills (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
    FROM: Bible, MATTHEW 6:21, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Obsession (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For now we see through a glass, darkly.
    FROM: Bible, Corinthians 13:12, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Portrait in Death (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The light of the body is in the eye.
    FROM: New Testament, (100), Bible, NULL
• Winston Churchill (2)
  • IN: The Pagan Stone (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
    FROM: Speech too the House of Commons, (1940), Speech, UK
  • IN: The Perfect Hope (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To improve is to change; To be perfect is to change often.
    FROM: NULL, (1925), Speech, US
• Henry David Thoreau (1)
  • IN: Tribute (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veil hangs over the past, present, and future.
    FROM: Dark Ages, (1843), Essay, US
• Oscar Wilde (1)
  • IN: Dance Upon the Air (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is sweet to dance to violins When Love and Life are Fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!
    FROM: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (1898), Poem, Ireland
• NULL (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
• William Wordsworth (2)
  • IN: Bed of Roses (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And ’tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
    FROM: Lines Written in Early Spring, (1798), Poem, UK
  • IN: Apprentice in Death (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Or moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
    FROM: Lyrical Ballads, (1798), Book, UK
• Bruce Lee (1)
  • IN: Bed of Roses (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Hong Kong
• Robert Herrick (1)
  • IN: Savour the Moment (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers; Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.
    FROM: "Hesperides, (1648), Poem, UK
• John Donne (2)
  • IN: Savour the Moment (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov’d?
    FROM: The Good-Morrow, (1633), Poem, UK
  • IN: Rapture in Death (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But I do nothing upon myself, yet am mine own Executioner.
    FROM: Meditation XII, (1624), Book, UK
• Anonymous (1)
  • IN: Vision in White (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Seduce my mind and you can have my body, Find my soul and I’m yours forever.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1)
  • IN: Vision in White (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not merely the likeness which is precious . . . but the association and sense of nearness involved in the thing . . . the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever!
    FROM: letter to Mary Russell Mitford, (1843), Letter, UK
• William Shakespeare (6)
  • IN: Happy Ever After (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
    FROM: Twelfth Night, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Glory in Death (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort.
    FROM: King Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
  • IN: Stars of Fortune (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
    FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
  • IN: Ceremony in Death (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
  • IN: Devoted in Death (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, As salt as wolves in pride.
    FROM: Othello, (1622), Poem, UK
  • IN: Promises in Death (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A little more than kin, and less than kind.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Poem, UK
• William King (1)
  • IN: Happy Ever After (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Beauty from order springs.
    FROM: The Art of Cookery, (1708), Poem, UK
• Longfellow (1)
  • IN: The Next Always (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain.
    FROM: My Lost Youth, (1855), Poem, US
• Thoreau (1)
  • IN: Key of Knowledge (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak, and another to hear.
    FROM: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, (1849), Book, US
• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Jewels of the Sun (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come away! O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
    FROM: The Stolen child, (1889), Poem, Ireland
• The Irish Rovers (1)
  • IN: Heart Of The Sea (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Her eyes they shone like diamonds, you'd think she was queen of the land.
    FROM: The Black Velvet Band, (1967), Song, Ireland
• Oliver Wendell Holmes (2)
  • IN: Red lily (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
    FROM: A Mother's Secret, (1858), Poem, US
  • IN: Festive in Death (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Schreiner, Olive (1)
  • IN: The Witness (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this: its intense loneliness; its intense ignorance.
    FROM: The Story of an African Farm, (1883), Novel, South Africa
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: Private scandals (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things.""
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1)
  • IN: Portrait in Death (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
    FROM: England, (1809), Poem, US
• George Gordon Byron (2)
  • IN: Immortal in Death (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The fatal gift of beauty
    FROM: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, (1812), Poem, NULL
  • IN: Rapture in Death (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is rapture on the lonely shore.
    FROM: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, (1812), Poem, NULL
• Christopher Marlowe (1)
  • IN: Immortal in Death (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Make me immortal with a kiss.
    FROM: Doctor Faustus, (1604), Play, UK
• William Butler Yeats (1)
  • IN: Holiday in Death (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
    FROM: The Second Coming, (1920), Poem, NULL
• Alfred Emmanuel Smith (1)
  • IN: Holiday in Death (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
    FROM: Phrase, used repeatedly in campaign speeches in 1936, attacking Franklin D. Roosevelt and the spendthrift policies of the New Deal, (1936), Speech, NULL
• John Dryden (1)
  • IN: Glory in Death (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fame then was cheap... And they have kept it since, by being dead.
    FROM: The Conquest of Granada, Epilogue, (1672), Play, UK
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Ceremony in Death (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
    FROM: Concerning the Jews, (1899), Essay, US
• Christina Rossetti (1)
  • IN: Bay of Sighs (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.
    FROM: A Birthday, (1861), Poem, UK
• Terence (1)
  • IN: Bay of Sighs (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fortune favours the brave
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Alfred Tennyson (1)
  • IN: Apprentice in Death (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams?
    FROM: LV, (None), Poem, NULL
• Arthur Hugh Clough (1)
  • IN: Indulgence in Death (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition.
    FROM: The Latest Decalogue, (None), Poem, NULL
• Logan Pearsall Smith (1)
  • IN: Indulgence in Death (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
    FROM: Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World", (1931), Essay, NULL
• Robert Burns (1)
  • IN: Devoted in Death (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
    FROM: Man Was Made to Mourn, (None), Poem, NULL
• Thomas Tusser (1)
  • IN: Festive in Death (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
    FROM: Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, (1573), Book, NULL
• Willa Cather (1)
  • IN: 1976 (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world.
    FROM: My Mortal Enemy, (1926), Book, US
• Voltaire (1)
  • IN: Suite 606 (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One owes respect to the living; to the dead one owes only the truth.
    FROM: Letter to M. de Grenonville, (1719), Letter, NULL
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: Suite 606 (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    FROM: Under Western Eyes, (1911), Book, England/Poland