Author: Rachel Pastan

Cites

• Daphne du Maurier (1)
  • IN: Alena (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It was as though she who had arranged this room had said: "This I will have, and this, and this," taking piece by piece from the treasures in Manderley each object that pleased her best, ignoring the second-rate, the mediocre, laying her hand with sure and certain instinct only upon the best.
    FROM: Rebecca, (1938), Novel, UK
• Jane Austen (1)
  • IN: This Side of Married (2004) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield," said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, "and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for."
    FROM: Pride and Prejudice, (1813), Novel, UK
• Sylvia Plath (1)
  • IN: Alena (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dying Is an art, like everything else.
    FROM: "Lady Lazarus", (1965), Poem, US