Author: Sarah Rees Brennan

Cites

• Charles Dickens (1)
  • IN: Tell the Wind and Fire (2016) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Tell Wind and Fire where to stop . . . but don't tell me.
    FROM: A Tale of Two Cities, (1859), Novel, UK
• Lord Alfred Tennyson (1)
  • IN: Unmade (2014) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: We are not now that strength which in old days / Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; / One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
    FROM: Ulysses, (1922), Poem, UK
• Christina Rossetti (3)
  • IN: Unmade (2014) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: There's blood between us, love, my love, / There's father's blood, there's brother's blood; / And blood's a bar I cannot pass.
    FROM: The Convent Threshold, (1862), Poem, UK
  • IN: Untold (2013) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: For all night long I dreamed of you: / I woke and prayed against my will, / Then slept to dream of you again.
    FROM: The Convent Threshold, (1862), Poem, UK
  • IN: Unspoken (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Somewhere or other there must surely be The face not seen, the voice not heard
    FROM: Somewhere or Other, (1866), Poem, UK
• Theodore Roethke (1)
  • IN: Unmade (2014) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. / What falls away is always. And is near. / I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. / I learn by going where I have to go
    FROM: The Waking, (1953), Poem, US
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1)
  • IN: Unmade (2014) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The face of all the world is changed, I think, / Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul. . . .
    FROM: The Face of All the World (Sonnet 7), (1850), Poem, UK
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (2)
  • IN: Unmade (2014) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
    FROM: Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies, (1937), Poem, US
  • IN: Untold (2013) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I have been torn / In two, and suffer for the rest of me.
    FROM: Interim, (1914), Poem, US
• Robert Frost (1)
  • IN: Untold (2013) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: And lonely as it is, that loneliness / Will be more lonely ere it will be less. . . .
    FROM: Desert Places, (1936), Poem, US
• Rupert Brooke (1)
  • IN: Untold (2013) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: . . . mystery down the soundless valley / Thunders, and dark is here; / And the wind blows, and the light goes, / And the night is full of fear. . . .
    FROM: Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia, (1911), Poem, UK
• George Eliot (1)
  • IN: Untold (2013) Fantasy, Romance Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
    FROM: Middlemarch, (1872), Novel, UK