Help with attribution of epigraph

[Gregg Bell]

I found an epigraph that I love for my novel. Oddly enough I found it as just a comment in a "Yahoo Answers" post. Well, I clicked on the guy's name link and there's no email address to contact him at. He has a blog but there's no posts and no email signup. In other words, I haven't been able to contact this person and I don't think I'll be able to. I could use his screen name but it's seriously goofy. Any thoughts?

[Cinisajoy]

Don't use it.

[JSWolf]

Try a Google search for the text and see if you might be able to find it elsewhere.

[E.M.DuBois]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Try a Google search for the text and see if you might be able to find it elsewhere.

I agree. If it's good enough to catch your attention, then it's good enough for the original author to want it attributed to them. Therefore, this person may not be the original author, and may be ripping it off, hence why he's not making himself identifiable. Or he may have just been too lazy (maybe even ignorant of laws?) to cite the source.

[Dr. Drib]

Give us the epigraph and the combined force of Mobileread will be at your service.

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Try a Google search for the text and see if you might be able to find it elsewhere.

Thanks Jon. Tried it but no luck.

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by E.M.DuBois

I agree. If it's good enough to catch your attention, then it's good enough for the original author to want it attributed to them. Therefore, this person may not be the original author, and may be ripping it off, hence why he's not making himself identifiable. Or he may have just been too lazy (maybe even ignorant of laws?) to cite the source.

Thanks E.M. I don't think this guy is your quote-giver kind of guy. At least not formally.

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Give us the epigraph and the combined force of Mobileread will be at your service.

Ha ha. Doctor!

Here's the quote:

Some people not only live for their love, but die because of it.

The guy's screen name is TheHeroWithinMe

Here's the link I found it in:

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...8154547AA9NOWa

[Cinisajoy]

I think that is an old old quote. It sounds vaguely familiar.

[JSWolf]

http://quotegeek.com/quotes-from-movies/the-crow/8281/

Part of his messages was taken from the movie The Crow.

[Dr. Drib]

"You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables


Close enough.

[GrannyGrump]

Only canoodling here, but it seems to me that the sentence "Some people not only live for their love, but die because of it " is the comment or summation of the poster (TheHeroWithinMe); he then goes on to post and cite the quote from The Crow:
Buildings burn
People die
but real LOVE is forever

But that is only an extrapolation....

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I think that is an old old quote. It sounds vaguely familiar.

Hi Cin. Yeah, it does sound familiar.

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

http://quotegeek.com/quotes-from-movies/the-crow/8281/

Part of his messages was taken from the movie The Crow.

Yeah. Kinda. But he really mangled it if he was paraphrasing it.

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

"You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables


Close enough.

Thanks Doc! You know at first I thought that quote was kind of a haiku type tautology type thing, but it's been growing on me. (And I think Victor Hugo might have a little more gravitas than TheHeroWithinMe.) (Not to knock Hero, but Hugo is Hugo after all.)

I wonder if this epigraph might say romance more than thriller though. But it does say to "die" of love, which works well with my title. I wonder if it will have people as confused as I am as to what it means. I wonder if that would be a bad thing. I also wonder if it might be a good thing. Like, 'Wow, this thing is deep.' Ha ha.