16 Things Only Les Misérables Fans Will Understand

6. You Want Someone To Love You Like Marius Loves Cosette

For the love of everything, why won't someone love you? You can't find anyone who can tolerate you and who also ticks every box on your checklist (because you still need to be with someone who has good genes). In the real world, you can't find anyone to even give you a second glance yet alone fall in love with you at first sight. And it's not too much to ask for someone who looks like Redmayne or Tveit, who can sing pretty well and then marry you. You're desperate for someone to look at you in the way that Marius looks at Cosette, but as everyone who you have a crush on in your life is like Marius, completely oblivious, you can't help but feel a little friend zoned because...
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