“Italy's siren call lures us more and more.”

“Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more”

“She’d looked so beautiful standing there, gazing out to sea. Crimson had once told him a tale about Sirens, magical creatures that lived on an island. Their songs lured mariners to their destruction – their ships were destroyed by the rocks surrounding the island. And even knowing that death awaited them, they couldn’t resist the lure of the Sirens’ song.”

“I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood.”

“Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger-Septimus Heap”

“The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.”