Marius Les Miserables Quotes & Sayings

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. — Francesca Annis

I'm not jaded yet. I'm still at the point where, if someone comes up to me with great energy, I'm happy to meet them. — David Walton

They're politicians," her father pointed out dryly. "A good grip on reality isn't part of the job description. — Christopher G. Nuttall

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. — Jacques Lacan

There have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

was one of those large, under-lit places that seemed to recede into shadow at the periphery, and in the murky middle — Emily St. John Mandel

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other. — Victor Hugo

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you. — Victor Hugo

I Want you to know one thing, I will always be true to you, and I will always say to you, I love you. — Auliq Ice

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:
"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you."
She essayed to smile again and expired. — Victor Hugo

Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic. — Victor Hugo

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today. — B. Traven