Enjolras: “Our nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy.” His optimism is almost cute.”
https://hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/barricade-overnight/
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Enjolras: “Our nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy.” His optimism is almost cute.”
https://hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/barricade-overnight/
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Joly: “What is a cat?…It’s a correction. Having created the mouse God said to himself, ‘That was silly of me!’ and so he created the cat.”
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Gavroche “had heard of five-franc pieces…knew them by reputation, and he was delighted to see one at close quarters”
Enjolras’ ability to spin *anything* into a motivational speech used to impress me, but now it’s annoying.
https://hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/first-attack/
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There’s no sign Marius has ever fired a gun, but he arrives at the barricade guns blazing, with perfect aim.
https://hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/first-attack/
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Would a French village in 1823 have had a Santa Claus? Thinking of the over-the-top movie version of Master of the House.
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Cosette’s best Christmas present ever: Jean Valjean showing up and taking her away from the Thenardiers.
https://hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/escaping-montfermeil/
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Gavroche is taking this whole revolution thing a lot less seriously than he should.
https://hyperborea.org/les-mis/book/revolting/
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Grantaire describes revolutions as God patching continuity glitches. I guess it makes more sense than Superboy punching the walls of time.
“When they had finished, when everything had been said, she laid her head on his shoulder & asked: What is your name?” OK, almost everything
Wow. I got a Pinterest follow from someone who used to run a Les Mis fan newsletter I subscribed to back in the 1990s. #throwbackthursday
Marius has taken to staring at a blank sheet of paper that he’s meant to be writing on. Yeah, that sounds about right.
“If we had to choose between the barbarians of civilization and those civilized upholders of barbarism we would choose the former.”
“There were men who came from enthusiasm for the cause, and others ‘because it was on their way to work’”
“The work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.”
“The conflict between Right and Fact goes back to the dawn of human society.”
Javert: “Courage does not fear crime, and honesty has no need to fear authority.” If only it were that simple.
It’s a lot easier to take screenshots or copy a quote from an eBook, but photos of a paper book have so much more character.
Cosette sleeps in a cupboard under the stairs. Thénardier probably cooked the owls from Beauxbatons. #HarryPotter #LesMiserables
I love this chapter title from when the Thénardiers meet Valjean: “Awkwardness of accommodating a poor man who may turn out to be rich.”