The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who.

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.