Author: Paul McAuley

Cites

• Dante Alighieri (2)
  • IN: Shrine of Stars (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Think on why you were created; Not to exist like animals indeed, But to seek virtue and knowledge.
    FROM: The Divine Comedy, (1472), Poem, Italy
• Lieutenant-General Jay Garner (1)
  • IN: Cowboy Angels (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We ought to look in a mirror and get proud and stick out our chests and suck in our bellies and say: "Damn, we're Americans."
    FROM: NULL, (2003), NULL, US
• Klopstock/Mahler (1)
  • IN: Eternal Light (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Oh rosebud red! Man's lot is of such extreme necessity, of such bitter pain, I had far rather be in Heaven. I came upon a broad highway when a little angel appeared and tried to send me back. Oh no! I refused to be sent back! I am from God and shall return to God! Dear, merciful God will give me a little light to light my way to everlasting bliss!
    FROM: Primeval Light, (1805), Song, Germany
• J. S. Bell (1)
  • IN: Eternal Light (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the realm of light there is no time.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Sophocles (1)
  • IN: Austral (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: How many miseries our father caused! And is there one of them that does not fall On us while yet we live?
    FROM: Antigone, (-441), Play, Greece