Peregrine

“Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.”
― Evan Esar

“The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.”
― Victor Hugo

“In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.”
― Victor Hugo