Abigail

“When adversity entered his room, he bowed to his old acquaintance cordially; he tickled catastrophe in the ribs.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: Marius

“A cloud has been collecting for 1500 years, yet you are condemning the thunderclap. Its wrath will be absolved by the future. Its result is a better world; and a caress for the human race issues from its most terrible blows. The human race has been chastised, but it has moved onward.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly speaking, loved in spite of yourself. To be served is to be caressed.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables