Author: Randy Wayne White

Cites

• Phil and Boe, Beverly Philcox (1)
  • IN: Gone (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Ox Woman (Sarah McLain Smith) had blue eyes and wore her hair in a bun at the back of her neck, as did many women at that time. She was always polite and well-spoken, behaved as a lady, and was grateful for anything that was done for her. There was no record of her ever having misused her great strength to injure anyone, or do harm.
    FROM: The Sunshine State Almanac and Book of Florida-Related Stuff, (1999), Book, US
• S. M. Tomlinson (7)
  • IN: Gone (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Pain is an inescapable part of the human experience. Misery, however, is not. Misery is an option.
    FROM: One Fathom Above Sea Level, (2012), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Chasing Midnight (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If religion is opium to the masses, the Internet is a crack, crank, pixel-huffing orgy that deafens the brain, numbs the senses, and scrambles our peer list to include every anonymous loser, twisted deviant and freak, as well as people we normally wouldn’t give the time of day.
    FROM: Sudden Internet Isolation Response In An Unprepared Society, (2012), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Tampa Burn (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Humanity has a limited biological capacity for change, but an unlimited capacity for spiritual change. The only human institution incapable of evolving spiritually is a cemetery.
    FROM: One Fathom Above Sea level, (2005), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Everglades (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Hope could not exist if man were created by a random, chemical accident. Pleasure, yes. Desire, yes. But not hope. Selfless hope is contrary to the dynamics of evolution or the necessities of a species.
    FROM: One Fathom Above Sea Level, (2004), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Night Vision (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything that has happened, everything that will happen, it all exists in this single moment, endlessly surfacing and submerging; natural order, perfect law. The word “coincidence” is an invention that defines our own confusion better than it describes a unique occurrence.
    FROM: NULL, (2011), Fictional, NULL
• Bible (3)
  • IN: Seduced (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
    FROM: Genesis 3:6, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Dead of Night (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thou shalt not fear the terror of night; nor the arrow that flieth by day; nor the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand may fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
    FROM: Psalms 91:5-7, (-165), Bible, NULL
• H. M. Tomlinson (2)
  • IN: Seduced (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Seduction begins with a fantasy that, pending a willing partner and a safe place, choreographs its own dangerous reality.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• José Martí (1)
  • IN: Cuba Straits (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love.)
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Cuba
• Bill Lee (1)
  • IN: Cuba Straits (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1)
  • IN: Dark Light (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1)
  • IN: Dark Light (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I had a little Sorrow, Born of a little Sin, I found a room all damp with gloom And shut us all within; And, “Little Sorrow, weep,” said I, “And, Little Sin, pray God to die, And I upon the floor will lie And think how bad I’ve been!”
    FROM: The Penitent, (1920), Poem, US
• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Ten Thousand Islands (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: These are the clouds about the fallen sun, The majesty that shuts his burning eye.
    FROM: These are the Clouds, (1916), Poem, Ireland
• Father Juan Rogel (1)
  • IN: Ten Thousand Islands (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They (the Calusa) said to me that their forbears had lived under this law from the beginning of time and that they also wanted to live under it, that I should leave them, that they did not want to listen to me.
    FROM: NULL, (1567), NULL, Spain
• NULL (4)
  • IN: Mangrove Lightning (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Your office sent bones in cloth bags. These bags have rotted and caused much chaos. When people came to claim them, it was not possible to identify individual sets correctly. Our hearts have no peace.
    FROM: A letter from Tung Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, to the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association regarding the repatriation of Chinese dead, San Francisco, (1928), Letter, Hong Kong
  • IN: Bone Deep (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Florida archaeologists . . . found a mastodon tusk, scarred by circular cut marks from a knife. The tusk was 14,500 years old. The age was surprising, even shocking, for it suddenly made the Aucilla [Florida] sinkhole one of the earliest places in the Americas to betray the presence of human beings.
    FROM: Smithsonian Magazine, (2013), Article, US
  • IN: Tampa Burn (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God, why’d you send me down here with a trigger finger and a tallywhacker, if you didn’t expect me to use ’em?
    FROM: Tucker Gatrell, (2005), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Black Widow (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For a great bachelorette party, try planning a weekend getaway at a spa or tropical resort. Get pampered, go sightseeing, dance with dashing foreign men who don’t speak English. Pack a survival kit . . . including a disposable camera. The pictures you take at the bachelorette party will come in handy when you need to blackmail the bride later!
    FROM: Advice to Maids of Honour www.foreverwed1.com, (2008), Fictional, NULL
• Jimmy Buffet (1)
  • IN: Night Moves (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now on the day that John Wayne died I found myself on the Continental Divide Tell me where do we go from here? Think I’ll ride into Leadville and have a few beers.
    FROM: Incommunicado, (1981), Song, US
• Captain Esperanza Woodring (1)
  • IN: Deceived (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: See, when you are a kid, you do not listen to all this [stories from old fishing families]. It just goes whisp. Then, when it is too late, you wished you had listened to a whole lot of that stuff.
    FROM: Fisherfolk of Charlotte Harbour by Robert F. Edic, (1996), Book, NULL
• John Steinbeck (1)
  • IN: Deep Blue (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.
    FROM: Sea of Cortez, (2009), Book, US
• Charles Darwin (2)
  • IN: Deep Blue (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
  • IN: Twelve Mile Limit (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and the Old World monkeys; and from the latter at a remote period, Man, the wonder and the glory of the Universe, proceeded.
    FROM: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, (1871), Book, UK
• Will Cuppy (1)
  • IN: Shark River (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The nervous system of the Herring is fairly simple. When the Herring runs into something, the stimulus is flashed to the forebrain, with or without results.
    FROM: How to Become Extinct, (1941), Book, US
• Max Risch (1)
  • IN: Shark River (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.
    FROM: Homo Faber, (1957), Novel, Switzerland
• Victor Smith (1)
  • IN: Black Widow (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “My grandfather was a powerful Houngan, a vitch [voodoo priest] known from Nassau through the islands. Now I’m a Houngan, keeper of that knowledge. I will tell you about assault obeahs, blue stone, fire, blood spells, and the lost Books of Moses. But you cannot write everything I tell you.”
    FROM: Free & Accepted Mason, Queen Esther, (2008), Fictional, NULL
• George Orwell (1)
  • IN: Everglades (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion.
    FROM: NULL, (1938), NULL, UK
• William Henry Harrison (1)
  • IN: Everglades (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My letter of yesterday will inform you of the departure of Tecumseh. There can be no doubt his object is to excite the southern Indians to war. [These] include the Seminole of Florida. The implicit obedience and respect which the followers of Tecumseh pay is astonishing. He is one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions, and overturn the established order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire that would rival in glory Mexico or Peru. No difficulties deter him.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Phil & Boe, Beverly Philcox (1)
  • IN: Gone (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Ox Woman (Sarah McLain Smith) had blue eyes and wore her hair in a bun at the back of her neck, as did many women at that time. She was always polite and well-spoken, behaved as a lady, and was grateful for anything that was done for her. There was no record of her ever having misused her great strength to injure anyone, or do harm.
    FROM: The Sunshine State Almanac and Book of Florida-related stuff, (1999), Book, US
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: Deep Shadow (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
    FROM: Beyond Good and Evil, (1886), Book, Germany
• Fidel Castro (1)
  • IN: Dead Silence (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The universities of Cuba are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Cuba
• Peter Matthiessen (1)
  • IN: Dead Silence (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As a child I was taught the Supernatural Powers (Taku Wakan) were powerful and could do strange things.
    FROM: Red Cloud; In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, (1903), NULL, US
• Albert Pike (1)
  • IN: Dead Silence (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not the mission of Freemasonry to engage in plots and conspiracies against the civil government. It is not the fanatical propagandist of any creed or theory. It is the apostle of liberty and equality.
    FROM: Morals and Dogma, (1871), NULL, US
• Joan of Arc (1)
  • IN: Night Vision (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Carolus Linnaeus (1)
  • IN: Dead of Night (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them.
    FROM: NULL, (1758), NULL, Sweden
• Willie Nelson (1)
  • IN: Key West Connection (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “. . . and they died with the smiles on their faces.”
    FROM: Blue Rock Montana, (1975), Song, US
• Edmund Burke (1)
  • IN: Hunter's Moon (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Randy Wayne White (1)
  • IN: Hunter's Moon (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It’s easier to be a genuinely humane person if you can afford to hire your own personal son of a bitch.
    FROM: S. M. Tomlinson in Ten Thousand Islands, (2000), Novel, US

Cited by

• Randy Wayne White (1)
  • IN: Hunter's Moon (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It’s easier to be a genuinely humane person if you can afford to hire your own personal son of a bitch.
    FROM: S. M. Tomlinson in Ten Thousand Islands, (2000), Novel, US