" Dostoyevsky shows me that life is even more terrible than my parents have told me, full of violence, humiliation, revenge, betrayal…But still so worth living! Far from fearing life, being suspicious of it or erecting walls against it, his characters cherish it, dive headlong into it, and drown in it if need be. ‘Everything is worth living,’ they seem to tell me. ‘Stop being afraid. "

― Maude Julien , The Only Girl in the World