It all comes down to what we want to see.

Sometimes you have to need Jesus before you find Him.

About the same time, Thenardier wrote to her that he had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade can one earn a hundred sous a day?"

"Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left."

The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town.

“What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. From whom? From misery.

From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts.

The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution.

Victor Hugo

Hugo: "The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town."

Luke 7:44: "Kai idou gune hetis ein en te polei amartolos."

Luke 7:44: "And behold, a woman who was in the town, a sinner."