“A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.” HeartFictionLaysLegendsLayersGrainHardened Book:Life Blood Source: Life Blood
“Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.” LooksHeartLittlesNightFallCitiesSunSpreadHillsRomeMistCreepsGloomyAlleysRooftops Author:Caroline Llewellyn