[via cosmicsyzygy]
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eight scenes: javert at the barricade (5/8)
“Shoot me now or shoot me later / Every schoolboy to his sport”
#javert held up his head with the intrepid serenity of the man who has never lied #surrounded by one man whose heart is too full to lie#who has too much dignity to do so #and another man whose heart burns for justice #who deals it out only moments later in the book and willingly damns himself in the process #and yet one more man whose lies are wrapped inside others and harm only himself #his heart is too full as well with a weight he accepts even when he doesn’t understand it #lightened only in the presence of its cause #all four men can see their ends right here in this moment#and accepts it in his own way #javert smugly and with a challenge he’ll soon be shocked to see unmet #combeferre with a resignation that he will have earned his death here but his dreams will live on and come true all the sooner #enjolras with impatience and his blood at a simmer he’s desired for so long #and grantaire who would sooner follow the others to their ends than exist in a world without them #three will offer the protest of corpses #the other will protest only his survival #from the heavy embrace of all desolations springs faith #faith that soothes and affirms #faith that burns and drives #faith that comforts and overwhelms all those protective lies #faith that cannot conquer a heart that will not let it survive
(via maraschinocheri)