“The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.”

“If death is inevitable, who’s to say that there aren’t other things that are inevitable as well? A cross and an empty tomb say ‘yes’ and ‘yes’.”

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.[Alexander’s tombstone epitaph]”

“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”