Author: Will Hill
Cites
- Robert Frost (3)
- IN: Battle Lines (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The earth had a single light afar,
A flickering, human pathetic light,
That was maintained against the night,
It seemed to me, by the people there,
With a Godforsaken brute despair.
FROM: "On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind", (1937), Poem, US
- IN: Zero Hour (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: It would be easy to be clever
And tell the stones: Men hate to die
And have stopped dying now forever,
I think they would believe the lie.
FROM: "In a Disused Graveyard", (1923), Poem, US
- IN: The Rising (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I shall be telling this with a sign
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
FROM: The Road Not Taken, (1916), Poem, US
- Abraham "Bram" Stoker (2)
- IN: Battle Lines (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things.
FROM: Jonathan Harker, Dracula, (1897), Fictional, Ireland
- IN: Zero Hour (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Surely there is some horrible doom hanging over us that every possible accident should thwart us in all we try to do.
FROM: John Seward, Dracula, (1897), Fictional, Ireland
- Mary Shelley (1)
- IN: The Rising (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK