Author: Roopa Farooki

Cites

• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: Half Life (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I measure every grief I meet With analytic eyes; I wonder if it weighs like mine Or has an easier size... The grieved are many, I am told; There is the various cause; Death is but one and comes but once And only nails the eyes.
    FROM: #561, (1896), Poem, US
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Half Life (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind... For if it see the rudest or the gentlest sight, The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature, The mountain or the sea, the day or night, The crow or dove, it shapes them to you feature: Incapable of more, replete with you, My most true mind thus makes mine eye untrue.
    FROM: Sonnet CXIII, (1609), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Flying Man (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate... Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee... For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
    FROM: Sonnet XXIX, (1609), Poem, UK
• Professor Sully Saddeq (1)
  • IN: The Good Children (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We sit in the dark And we sit in the cold We're obedient kids We do what we're told It's good to be good So we do what we're told
    FROM: Collaborators -- How Good People Do Bad Things, (2014), Fictional, UK
• Dr. Jakie Saddeq (1)
  • IN: The Good Children (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It suits you when you say no... I should try saying it more often. It's a powerful little word.
    FROM: NULL, (2014), Fictional, UK
• George Leybourne (1)
  • IN: The Flying Man (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease, That daring young man on the flying trapeze.
    FROM: Champagne Charlie, (1866), Song, UK