“The graves took all night to dig.”

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“Pereira maintains he met him one summer’s day…” #greatfirstlines

And Benvenuto Cellini - decidedly unreliable in that he never mentions that he is under house arrest for homosexuality, the very situation in which he wrote his autobiography. But as a picture of 15th C Italy it rings very true.

"Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end, but all the best stories begin in a library."
- Alice Hoffman,
The Book of Magic
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“I didn’t attend the execution, although I was invited. ‘Invited’—such a civilized word for a string of events that began with my sister’s brains being blown out and ended with his veins pumped full of state-sanctioned poison.”

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'It's strange to be here,
The wonder never leaves you alone'
John O'Donohue, Anam Cara
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