Epigraphs aflaunting

As an avid collector of books, what I first read, well after the title, is the epigraphs- if there's any- and that would set my mood, would drive me down ferociously, pursuing the hidden morsels deep within the pages. This is not an entirely original post, a tumblr account I've stumbled from Flavorwire led me to Epigraphic - a blog purely adorned with multi-textured epigrams, from different literary mantras of the publishing world.

What would make this original, I hope, is the inclusion of the book covers where the epigrammatic consciousnesses are taken from. The books here are from my humble collections. If you happen to come across this blog, please leave your comments on how can I better my post every single time.

Love..., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

- Marcel Proust. Epigraph from The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer.

Márgarét, are you gríeving

Over Goldengrove unleaving?

Leáves, líke the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

Ah!  ás the heart grows older

It will come to such sights colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;

And yet you wíll weep and know why.

Now no matter, child, the name:

Sórrow's spríngs áre the same.

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed

What heart heard of, ghost guessed:

It ís the blight man was born for,

It is Margaret you mourn for.

- Spring and Fall: To a Young Child. Epigraph from Goldengrove by Framcine Prose

Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

- Sheryl Louise Moller. Epigraph from Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

There is another world, but it is in this one.

-W.B. Yeats. Epigraph from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Rattle his bones/ Over the stones/ It's only a pauper/ Who nobody owns. 

Traditional Nursery Rhyme. Epigraph from The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.

- They say this is a wonderful world to live in, but I don't believe I ever did really live in a wonderful world.

Charlie Starkweather in his 1958 confession. Epigraph from Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx

And a certain ruler asked him, saying, " Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said unto him, " Why callest thou me good? None is good, save one. That is God."

- Luke 18:18-19. Epigraph from The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant... An elephant's faithful- one hundred per cent!

- Theodor Seuss Geisel, Horton Hatches the Egg, 1940. Epigraph from Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Xoxo

Ryan