a heart beneath a stone

"Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! ... The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state."

"If no one loved, the sun would go out."

-Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

"When we show a friend a city one has already visited, we feel the same pride as when we point out a woman whose lover we have been."

-The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas