“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”
― The Lightning Thief
― The Lightning Thief
“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
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