Willow

“He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on the spot.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“And then he put forth a theory as twisted as his bow tie: everyone has their own witness. Someone that we secretly want to convince, someone all of our actions are directed toward, someone we can’t stop secretly talking to. This witness, he added, is not the most obvious, is almost never your spouse or father or sister or lover, is often someone trivial, secondary to the normal course of life.”
― Andrés Barba, A Luminous Republic

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“They died like heroes,” a young fighter said gently.
“I don’t want them to be heroes; I want them alive. For whom will I
cook? For whom will I make soup? I want the hands that took plates from
me; I want the faces that smiled at me.”
― Aharon Appelfeld, To the Edge of Sorrow