Ur Eyes Quote by Kevin Hearne

“You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can’t understand what that means until you’ve read…

— Kevin Hearne

Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, forced himself to write by disrobing and giving his clothing to his valet with strict instructions that it…

— Wilma Davidson

“Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.”

— Mary Balogh

“The idea that one will die is more painful than dying, but less painful than the idea that another person is dead, that, becoming…

— Marcel Proust

“CHAPTER 2: THE GRACE-SHAPED LIFE 1. Jim Reimann, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (Nashville: Word Publishing, 2001), 16. 2. Ibid., 29–31.”

— Max Lucado

“Will I die without ever reading Ulysses to the end?”

— David Mitchell

“Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : "?" The publisher's response: "!" ”

— Victor Hugo

“The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope to duck under,…

— Victoria Schwab

“Death is a tale we must all someday read.”

— William Grave

“Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)”

— Francisco de Quevedo

“The death of someone is like reading a book, yet having it end, where it wasn't supposed to.”

— Cindy Vo Nguyen