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Ugh. Movie Phœbus >>>>> Book Phœbus 🙃

“ She flew to meet him as far off as she could see him. ‘Alone!’ She cried, clasping her beautiful hands sorrowfully. ‘ I could not find him,’ said Quasimodo coldly. ‘ You should have waited all night,’ she said angrily. […] he left her. She was displeased with him. He preferred to have her abuse him rather than to have afflicted her. He had kept all the pain to himself.”

“The gypsy paid no heed to him. He said in a low voice as he gnashed his teeth— ‘Damnation! This is what one should be like! ‘Tis only necessary to be handsome on the outside!’ “ If there is one thing Hugo was exceptionally well at, it’s making you feel strongly for every single character.

Phœbus is such a piece of shit.

Someone needs to cut his head off please

“Phœbus was not dead, however”— WHY???? I hate him 🙃

WHY wasn’t Jehan part of the Disney film????😭😂 I know he isn’t supposed to be funny, but the way he just doesn’t care at all. About anything. Except for money?? 😭😭

Hugo’s humor in this book is VASTLY underrated. Having the narrator repeatedly call Phœbus out for being an idiot will never not be funny, especially when he calls Esmeralda “my love”, “my beauty”, charming damsel” all right in front of his betrothed. Which, speaking of Fleur-de-Lys, even though she is a cruel, jealous woman, I can’t help but feel sorry for her. She’s stuck with Phœbus after all