Author: Peter May

Cites

• Joyce Carol Oates (1)
  • IN: Blacklight Blue (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
    FROM: I Lock My Door Upon Myself, (1993), Novel, US
• Bible (2)
  • IN: Freeze Frame (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
    FROM: Bible, 1 Corinthians, 55, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Entry Island (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Gus am bris an latha agus an teich na sgailean (Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away )
    FROM: Song of Solomon 4:6, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: The Critic (None) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1)
  • IN: Cast Iron (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Omar Khayyam (2)
  • IN: Runaway (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
    FROM: The Rubaiyat, (1859), Book, Iran
  • IN: The Chess Men (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
    FROM: The Rubaiyat, (1859), Book, Iran