Author: Susan Meissner

Cites

• Harold Monro (1)
  • IN: Stars Over Sunset Boulevard (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That star-enchanted song falls through the air From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound, Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground; And all the night you sing.
    FROM: Nightingale Near the House, (1922), Poem, UK
• Marcus Aurelius (2)
  • IN: Secrets of a Charmed Life (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our life is what our thoughts make it.
    FROM: Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Widows & Orphans (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep onself from being polluted by the world.
    FROM: James 1:27, (100), Bible, NA
• G. K. Chesterton (1)
  • IN: Widows & Orphans (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting -- it has been found difficult and left untried.
    FROM: What's Wrong with the World, (1910), Novel, UK
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1)
  • IN: A Bridge Across the Ocean (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities, -- the eternal past, the eternal future. The light shines only on a small space around her; therefore, she needs must yearn towards the unknown...
    FROM: Uncle Tom's Cabin, (1852), Novel, US
• Dennis A. Boots (1)
  • IN: A Bridge Across the Ocean (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Death is an impossible ending It releases all the emotions of life To roam the uninhibited skies forever! And to endure all the spirits Of other lifetimes
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1)
  • IN: A Fall of Marigolds (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love (they say) sometimes flies, sometimes walks, runs with one, creeps with another, warms a third, burns a fourth, wounding some, and slaying others. In one moment it begins, performs and concludes its career; lays siege in the morning to a fortress which is surrendered before night, there being no fortress that can withstand its power.
    FROM: The History and Adventurres of the Renowned Don Quixote, (1615), Novel, Spain