Author: Susan Wiggs

Cites

• Robert Baden-Powell (1)
  • IN: Return to Willow Lake (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
    FROM: Scouting for Boys, (1908), Book, UK
• Hans Christian Andersen (1)
  • IN: The Charm School (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “What nice little children you do have, mother,” said the old duck with the rag around her leg. “They are all pretty except that one. He didn’t come out so well. It’s a pity you can’t hatch him again.” And the poor duckling who had been the last one out of his egg, and who looked so ugly, was pecked and pushed about and made fun of by the ducks, and the chickens as well. “He’s too big,” said they all. The turkey gobbler, who thought himself an emperor because he was born wearing spurs, puffed up like a ship under full sail and bore down upon him, gobbling and gobbling until he was red in the face. The poor duckling did not know where he dared stand or where he dared walk. He was so sad because he was so desperately ugly, and because he was the laughingstock of the whole barnyard. When morning came, the wild ducks flew up to have a look at the duckling. “What sort of creature are you?” they asked, as the duckling turned in all directions, bowing his best to them all. “You are terribly ugly,” they told him, “but that’s nothing to us so long as you don’t marry into our family.”
    FROM: The Ugly Ducking, (1843), Short Story, Denmark
• Socrates (1)
  • IN: Home Before Dark (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and love to chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Empress Marie-Louise (1)
  • IN: Miranda (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How weak and powerless I am in this whirlwind of plotting and treachery.
    FROM: NULL, (1814), Journal, Austria
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Apple Orchard (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Stay with me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
    FROM: The Song of Solomon 2:5, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1)
  • IN: Starlight on Willow Lake (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
    FROM: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, (1543), Book, Poland
• Mignon McLaughlin (1)
  • IN: The You I Never Knew (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
    FROM: The Second Neurotic's Notebook, (1966), Book, US
• Charles Simic (1)
  • IN: The Goodbye Quilt (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US/Serbia