Author: Rumi

Cited by

• Jandy Nelson (1)
  • IN: I'll Give You the Sun (2014) Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."
    FROM: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing, (None), Poem, Afghanistan
• Kelly McGonigal (1)
  • IN: The Willpower Instinct: How Self-control works, Why it Matters, and What you can do to get more of it (2012) Non-Fiction, Psychology, American
    EPIGRAPH: The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Persia
• Elizabeth Berg (1)
  • IN: The Art of Mending (2004) Ficion, American
    EPIGRAPH: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing There is a field. I'll meet you there
    FROM: A Great Wagon, (None), ***Poem, Afghanistan
• Meghan Nuttall Sayres (1)
  • IN: Night Letter (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are love stories, And there is obliteration into love.
    FROM: The Second Coming, (None), Poem, Afghanistan/Turkey
• Heather Demetrios (1)
  • IN: I'll Meet You There (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn't make any sense.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Lexa Hillyer (1)
  • IN: Spindle Fire (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Amber Lough (1)
  • IN: The Fire Wish (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Renee Bernard (2)
  • IN: Obsession Wears Opals (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking out for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
  • IN: Desire Wears Diamons (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I used to be respectable and chaste and stable, but who can stand in this strong wind and remember those things? Love has taken away my practices and filled me with poetry.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• A and Wilson-Anastasios, Meaghan Anastasios (1)
  • IN: The Water Diviner (2014) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: When we leave this world, do not look for our tombs in the earth, but find them in the hearts of men.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Kirsten Beyer (1)
  • IN: Star Trek Voyager: Atonement (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From books and words come fantasy, and sometimes, from fantasy comes union
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Nadia Hashimi (2)
  • IN: House Without Windows (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The message, the rain, and the divine light come through my window Falling into my house from my origins Hell is that house without a window True religions, O servant of God, is creating a window Do not raise your ax to every nook, come Raise your ax to frame a window Do you not know that sunlight Is only the image of the sun that appears beyond her veil?
    FROM: Masnavi III, (1273), Poem, Turkey
  • IN: A House Without Windows (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The message, the rain, and the divine light come through my window Falling into my house from my origins Hell is that house without a window True religion, O servant of God, is creating a window Do not raise your ax to every nook, come Raise your ax to frame a window Do you not know that sunlight Is only the image of the sun that appears beyond her veil?
    FROM: Masnavi III, (1273), Poem, Turkey
• Sue Monk Kidd (1)
  • IN: The Mermaid Chair (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Iran
• Elnathan John (1)
  • IN: Born on a Tuesday (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a baby is taken from the wet nurse, it easily forgets her and starts eating solid food. Seeds feed a while on ground, then lift up into the sun. So you should taste the filtered light and work your way toward wisdom with no personal covering. That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan/Turkey
• Colleen Oakley (1)
  • IN: Close Enough to Touch (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
    FROM: The Essential Rumi, (1995), Book, Turkey
• 9= (1)
  • IN: The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come on, sweetheart let's adore on another before there is no more of you and me.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Wendy Wallace (1)
  • IN: The Sacred River (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What you seek is seeking you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Monique Roffey (1)
  • IN: House of Ashes (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They are here with us now, Those who saddle with a new broken colt Every morning and ride the seven levels of sky, Who lay down at night With the sun and the moon for pillows.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Anna Raverat (1)
  • IN: Lover (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: This being human is a Guest House. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture. Still treat each guest honourably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
    FROM: "The Guest House", (None), Poem, Afghanistan
• Charlie Quimby (1)
  • IN: Monument Road (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• George Mastras (1)
  • IN: Fidali's Way (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, They are given wings.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Gabrielle Zevin (3)
  • IN: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come on, sweetheart Let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
  • IN: The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come on, sweetheart Let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
  • IN: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: come on, sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
• Gurjinder Basran (1)
  • IN: Someone You Love is Gone (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: This we have now is not imagination. This is not grief or joy. Not a judging state, or an elation, or sadness. Those come and go. This is the presence that doesn't.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Iran
• Jennifer Probst (1)
  • IN: Everywhere and Every Way (2016) Romance Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Aghanistan
• Lisa Genova (1)
  • IN: Every Note Played (2018) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Persia (Afghanistan)
• Marjorie Liu (2)
  • IN: The Mortal Bone (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan
  • IN: Eye of Heaven (2006) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: “A lover doesn’t figure the odds.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Afghanistan