Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

If a man has tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?

Insensé, dit-il, le jour où j'avais résolu de me venger, de ne pas m'être arraché le cœur !

But you are quite of opinion, are you not, that Heaven will avenge me, d'Artagnan?""And I know some persons on earth who will lend a helping hand," said the captain.

Vengeance in bloom shone in her eyes and smiled on her lips.

I almost regret having helped you in your researches & having told you what I did

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercédès, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercédès, I must have my revenge!

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!