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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

Didn't expect Marius to be stalking fifteen-year-old Cosette

The tension... The yearning...

Okay, I know the background of the town very well now but literally nothing has happened! Plot, please?

Girl... Please break up with your fiancé

I'd do anything to protect that little mushroom 😭🍄

Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that's pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us.

Obsessed with her copy editing his email apology

✅ Snarky ✅ Rude ✅ Attractive
So I just met the love interest

I'm so stressed

Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder, but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it.

"Jamie, please," Iain said again, grabbing for him, but James shook him off with a rough sound of disbelief.
"Don't follow me," he said. "Don't ever follow me anywhere again."
And with that, he ran off into the storm.
🫠🫠🫠

Kinda hating this

He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601. As to what became of his sister and children, who knew or cared? What becomes of the leaves of a tree, sawed down at the root?