Author: Tony Parsons

Cites

• Carlo Collodi (1)
  • IN: Men from the Boys (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "I remember everything!" cried Pinocchio. "Tell me quickly, dear snail, where did you leave my good fairy? What is she doing? Has she pardoned me? Does she still remember me? Does she love me still?
    FROM: Pinocchio, (1883), Novel, Italy
• Charles Dickens (2)
  • IN: Catching the Sun (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ... it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
    FROM: Great Expectations, (1861), Novel, UK
  • IN: The Hanging Club (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A great multitude has already assembled; the windows were filled with people smoking and playing cards to beguile the time; the crowd were pushing, quarrelling, and joking. Every thing told of life and animation, but one dark cluster of objects in the very centre of all — the black stage, the cross-beam, the rope, and all the hideous apparatus of death.
    FROM: Oliver Twist, (1838), Novel, UK
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Catching the Sun (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Do good -- get good. Do bad -- get bad.
    FROM: Thai Proverb, (None), Proverb, Thailand
  • IN: The Murder Bag (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And nothing in life shall sever The chain that is round us now.
    FROM: Eton Boating Song, (1863), [NA], UK
  • IN: My Favourite Wife (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man with two houses loses his mind. A man with two women loses his soul.
    FROM: Chinese Proverb, (None), Proverb, China
• Joyce Carol Oates (1)
  • IN: The Slaughter Man (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Crimes reverberate through years and through lives. It is a rare homicide that destroys only one person.
    FROM: After Black Rock, (2013), Article, US
• Raymond Buckland (1)
  • IN: The Slaughter Man (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Most gypsies fear the dead.
    FROM: Buckland's Book of Gypsy Magic -- Travellers' Stories, Spells & Healings, (2010), Book, UK
• George Orwell (1)
  • IN: The Murder Bag (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Crimes as serious as murder should have strong emotions behind them.
    FROM: The Decline of the English Murder, (1946), Essay, UK
• J. M. Barrie (1)
  • IN: Starting Over (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: That was the last time the girl Wendy ever saw him. For a little longer she tried for his sake not to have growing pains; and she felt she was untrue to him when she got a prize for general knowledge. But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys. Wendy was grown up. You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up.
    FROM: Peter Pan and Wendy, (1911), Novel, UK
• William Faulkner (1)
  • IN: Die Last (2017) Crime Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
    FROM: As I lay dying, (1930), Novel, US
• Samuel Johnson (1)
  • IN: The Hanging Club (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators they don’t answer their purpose.
    FROM: NULL, (1783), NULL, UK
• Vladimir Nabokov (1)
  • IN: My Favourite Wife (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
    FROM: Lolita, (1955), Novel, Russia