One is never free except in relation to someone else. And when, the relation is based on happiness, it allows the greatest freedom in the world. - Françoise Sagan

I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore. Making judgments for or against my characters bores me enormously; it doesn’t interest me at all. The only morality for a novelist is the morality of his esthétique.

Edouard was trying to understand, to find out what he could have done to lose Beatrice's favor. He couldn't know that his unpardonable sin was the fact that he was too deserving.

Love is worth whatever it costs.