Alonna Maddox’s Reviews > The Brothers Karamazov > Status Update

"He had fallen on the earth a weak boy, but he rose up a resolute champion, and he knew and felt it suddently at the very moment of his ecstasy. And never, never, all his life long, could Alyosha forget that minute."

I've returned to this passage so many times since my initial reading, but it hits just so much harder in context.