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Quote #10
At that distance he could see her quiver beneath her white robe in the last convulsive agonies of death; then he looked down at the Archdeacon, stretched at the foot of the tower, looking hardly human at all, and, heaving a deep sigh, he cried, "There is all I have ever loved!" (XI.II.30)
The key word here is "all." Quasimodo does not dole out love easily, considering how little of it he has received in his life. But Quasimodo is also the one responsible for Frollo's death. It's as if Quasimodo had to kill Frollo in spite of his love for him. It's as if his love for Frollo and his love for Esmeralda have collided with one another; love is so complicated that it compels Quasimodo to destroy one of the two things he did love. Who ever said love was easy, or simple, or that it made sense? Not Victor Hugo.