Chapter One. I am Born. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.’” Charley shivered, just once. He was as pale as he’d been in the car on the way to the hospital. “Do you remember what you wrote about those lines, once? You called them the most perfect opening lines in the history of literature. Because they are all our opening lines. They are how our stories all begin. It was how you began.”
