“Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.”

“Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”

“The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.”

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

“What is fright by night is curiosity by day.”

“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”

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