Emily > Emily's Quotes

“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.

-Claude Frollo ”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Spira, spera.

(breathe, hope)”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young
man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the
pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in
winter.”
― Victor Hugo , Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Adapted and dramatized in 2 acts

“The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century; look at the light through that surprising host of steeples, towers, and belfries; pour forth amid the immense city, break against the points of its islands, compress within the arches of the bridges, the current of the Seine, with its large patches of green and yellow, more changeable than a serpent's skin; define clearly the Gothic profile of this old Paris upon an horizon of azure, make its contour float in a wintry fog which clings to its innumerable chimneys; drown it in deep night, and observe the extraordinary play of darkness and light in this sombre labyrinth of buildings; throw into it a ray of moonlight, which shall show its faint outline and cause the huge heads of the towers to stand forth from amid the mist; or revert to that dark picture, touch up with shade the thousand acute angles of the spires and gables, and make them stand out, more jagged than a shark's jaw, upon the copper-coloured sky of evening. Now compare the two.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Oh! Everything I loved!”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again. "What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“C’est que l’amour est comme un arbre, il pousse de lui-même, jette profondément ses racines dans tout notre être, et continue souvent de verdoyer sur un cœur en ruines.   Et ce qu’il y a d’inexplicable, c’est que plus cette passion est aveugle, plus elle est tenace. Elle n’est jamais plus solide que lorsqu’elle n’a pas de raison en elle.  ”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“to be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, one's fame, one's salvation, one's immortality and eternity,”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

“Ceci tuera cela”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame