"And then, strange to say, the first..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition”

“I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.”

“In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.”

“Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.”

“Love, the life-giving garden of this world.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.”

“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That’s never happened to me before, and I’m not sure it’ll ever happen again. I’ve never been in love with anyone before you came along — not real love anyway…not like this. And I’d be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight”

“You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.”