Sarah

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. . . .
You ask why I speak? I am neither informed against, nor pursued, nor hunted, say you. Yes! I am informed against! yes! I am pursued! yes! I am hunted! By whom? by myself. It is I myself who bar the way before myself, and I drag myself, and I urge myself, and I check myself and I exert myself, and when one holds himself he is well held.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

“That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables