Author: Sophie Hardach

Cites

• Voltaire (quoting the Quaker Andrew Pitt) (1)
  • IN: Of Love and other Wars (2013) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: When after a victorious battle, all London sparkles with illuminations, when the sky is ablaze with fireworks, when the air is filled with the noise of thanks-giving, bells, organs, cannons; we wail in silence over the murders that caused the public rejoicing.
    FROM: Premiere Letter sur les Quakers, (1734), Letter, France
• Ehmedê Xanî (1)
  • IN: The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages (2011) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: So that wise men cannot say: The Kurds Did not choose love as their aim. They neither desire nor are desired, They neither love nor are loved
    FROM: Mem û Zîn, (1962), Novel, Turkey
• Gérard Chaliand (1)
  • IN: The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages (2011) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Why didn't he give me to his master, Agha Hassan, Bahri's uncle, Why did he give me to Ibrahim Temo, who looks like the old rat from the granary?
    FROM: Kurdish Folk Song, (None), Song, Iran