“When the kingdom's people had stopped believing in the druids' deities they had not begun believing in nothing, they had begun believing in anything.”
“Halley believed that a kiss was the beginning of a story, the story, good or bad, short or long, of an us, and once begun, you had to follow it through to the end.”
“Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun.”
“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5”
“The horror had begun.”
“The dance had begun.”