*Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.* [*Victor Hugo*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13661.Victor_Hugo?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) January 15, 1831: On this day, Victor Hugo finished writing The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Today it is a classic, but Hugo had humbler ambitions in telling the tale of Esméralda and Quasimodo: He wanted his contemporaries to be more aware of the importance of Gothic architecture.