4.5 stars. 
 This book is a masterpiece. I don't even know how to review something so beautiful and complex, so I'm just gonna list a few of the MANY amazing quotes from this work of art. 
 Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. 
 I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning. 
 What Is love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul. 
 Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. 
 There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. 
 (minus .5 stars just because Cosette is annoying af)