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 br…

- Caroline Llewellyn

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.

- Caroline Llewellyn

... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

- Caroline Llewellyn

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or n…

- Caroline Llewellyn

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

- Caroline Llewellyn

Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

- Caroline Llewellyn

Myth is someone else's religion.

- Caroline Llewellyn

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

- Caroline Llewellyn