Love and hope, again

Flipping through one of my writing journals, I came by this quote from Dostoevsky. For anyone familiar with his classic novel Crime and Punishment, I thought this quote is a powerful one.

"They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin;  but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life.
  They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of an impoverished former student in St. Petersburg, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. In dire need of cash, he formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker. He argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, as he believes that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.