Author: Petina Gappah

Cites

• Vladimir Nabokov (1)
  • IN: The Book of Memory (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
    FROM: Speak, Memory, (1951), Book, Russia
• Immanuel Kant (1)
  • IN: Rotten Row (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
    FROM: Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, (1784), Essay, Germany
• Jane Hirshfield (1)
  • IN: An Elegy for Easterly (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs - all this resinous, unretractable earth.
    FROM: Optimism, (None), Poem, NULL