Take what you want, it said. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you. Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.
“Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
― The Tale of Despereaux
“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
“Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
― The Tale of Despereaux
“He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?”
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
― The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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