A Tale of Two Cities

"We are prisoners all—of circumstance, of birth, of our own nature"

"Once you cross certain lines, you cannot return to who you were before"

"She was his anchor in the storm, his light in the darkness"

"The aristocracy trembles at the sound of marching feet"

"What depths of love and devotion can the human heart contain? Who knows their full measure?"

"Every human has the power to make another human happy by a simple act of kindness"

"The heart knows what the mind refuses to accept"

"In the eyes of the law, all men are equal—but in the eyes of society, never"

"We are not machines of wood and iron, but creatures of passion and principle"

"The wine spilled upon the stones cries out for vengeance"

"A day may come when the courage of men fails, but it is not this day"

"Cruel as the grave, and hungry as the grave; evil is the hunger of the stones"

"I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy"

"The fetters fall away, and men stand upright at last"

"Darkness and light, night and day, life and death—all are but shadows of greater truths"

"The suffering of one innocent man is the seed of revolution's downfall"

"She counted the rings; they were not many and clear"

"There is nothing in you to like; I have the feelings towards you that no words can express"

"When the grinding wheel of the Revolution gathers momentum, it crushes all before it"

"The great sea had them, and it will have them for ever and ever"

"My life might have been so different"

"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule"

"The quiet and kindly place where Lucie will be born"

"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair"

"I see that child who lay upon your bosom and who bore your name, a man and woman marrying under the Promise of Heaven"

"Better to be a little lowly, loved and respected for those humble qualities, than exalted among the millions who care for nothing about you"

"The night comes on, and the world looks to the stars for light"

"If you recall that I am here at all, it is an act of pity"

"Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms"

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"