Krystine

“Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“I'm not really sure what makes a book a "classic" to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.”
― Jeff Kinney, Dog Days

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda