"Beautiful with a beauty that combined all of the woman with all of the angel, a beauty that would have made Petrarch sing and Dante kneel."

"Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

Marius felt Cosette living within him. To have Cosette, to possess Cosette, this to him was not separable from breathing."

My grandmother died today. i hadn't seen her in at least 8 years. but i see my mom everyday, and she's really hurting.