The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

“When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”

“No temamos nunca ni a los ladrones ni a los asesinos: esos son los peligros ext…”

“Why was I not made of stone like thee?--Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts…”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”