Abigail

“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

“There are some men apparently born to be the reverse of the coin; their name is a continuation, and is never written except preceded by the conjunction "and." Their existence is not their own.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: Marius

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

“With a choice between two lights, his inclination was for illumination rather than fire. He preferred the whiteness of the beautiful to the flashing of the sublime, and a brightness clouded by smoke; a progress purchased by violence only half satisfied his tender and serious mind.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: Marius