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** In ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|The Deathly Hallows]]'' Harry and Hermione notice the quotation [[The Bible|"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"]] on Dumbledore's mother's tombstone, as well as [[The Bible|"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death"]] on the Potters' grave.
* The Yeerks in ''[[Animorphs]]'' take their name from [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s [[Con Lang|Sindarin]] Elvish word for Orcs, ''yrch''.
* In Paul Robinson's ''[[Instrument of God]]'', which is a story about an Afterlife run inside a computer system, the dead people who go to orientation are given references to movies about their situation, including ''[[The Matrix]]'', ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'', ''[[Total Recall]]'' and ''What Dreams May Come''. The Preface to the book mentions other stories including [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Elsewhen]]'' and ''[[Stranger in
* In ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'', [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] has several characters quote passages of ''The Robbers'', a play by Friedrich Schiller. There are also a lot of [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to the works of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Alexander Pushkin, and Voltaire. Naturally, given the book's religious themes, [[The Bible]] is quoted very often.
* A recurring character in Robert Rankin's books is the "psychic youth and masturbator" Danbury Collins. This is based on Andy Collins, author of dubious New Age work ''The Knights of Danbury'' and a rival of Robert's.
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