Oliver

“Margret,” he said, “you are my child. I forgave you all your sins on the first day of your life.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally powerful in humankind! The devil rules over mankind equally until a time that is not revealed to us.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“It was quite evident that all the misery of the people or, at least by far the greater part of it, was caused by the fact that the land which should feed them was not in their hands, but in the hands of those who, profiting by their rights to the land, live by the work of these people.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection