Elise Winchell

“There occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should return. Drive it out better.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“If you don’t look interested nobody’ll know you are.”
― Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There

“Let your rain be your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables