Fantine Quotes

“She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“She talked thus, bent double, shaken with sobs, blinded by tears, her neck bare, clenching her hands, coughing with a dry and short cough, stammering very feebly with an agonised voice. Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. At that moment Fantine had again become beautiful. At certain instants she stopped and tenderly kissed the policeman’s coat. She would have softened a heart of granite; but you cannot soften a heart of wood”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Fantine... Fall on your knees whenever you pronounce it. She suffered much and loved you much. Her measure of unhappiness was as full as yours of happiness, such are the distributions of God. He is on high; He sees us all and He knows what He does in the midst of His great stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their grave.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables