Fr. Patrick O'Brien

“This was the second white vision he had met. The bishop had caused the dawn of virtue on his horizon; Cosette invoked the dawn of love.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“From time to time she bent over and glanced at it, and then looked at the man. She felt almost as though she were near God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“And then he reflected that two houses of God had received him in succession at the two critical moments of his life, the first when every door was closed and human society rejected him; the second, when human society was once more howling on his track, and prison once more gaped for him; and that, had it not been for the first, he would have fallen back into crime, and had it not been for the second, into punishment. His whole heart melted in gratitude and he loved more and more.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables