Quotes About Marius And Cosette

#1. 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

#2. Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

Victor Hugo

#3. Neither was to blame for the way they felt, because Marius was someone who embraces sorry and dwells in it, but Cosette felt it deeply but recovered.

Victor Hugo

#4. Beer's nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart.

Tom Robbins

#5. Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

Victor Hugo

#6. Life gives you what you expect, what you are prepared to put up with or can change.

Steven Redhead

#7. I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.

Isabel Allende

#8. With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

Joseph Raffael

#9. I inherit the results of my acts of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#10. Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm)

Mary Doria Russell