Lily’s Reviews > The Count of Monte Cristo > Status Update

"Are you ambitious? Every career is open to you. Stir up the world, change it, commit any kind of folly, be a criminal if you must, but live!"

"They were at the top of the Montée de Villejuif, on the plateau from which Paris is a dark sea shimmering with millions of lights like phosphorescent waves; and waves they are, more thunderous, more passionate, more shifting, more furious and more greedy than those of the stormy ocean, waves which never experience the tranquillity of a vast sea, but constantly pound together, ever foaming and engulfing everything"

'Why? There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death'

Absolutely fantastic so far. Definitely going to be one of my favourite books.