in my top 10 les mis moments: marius suggesting that if enjolras had also seen cosette he too might have been struck by a moment of breathless delight or whatever the fuck and enjolras straight up SCOFFING
The REAL reason Les Mis is a great book is because it has the duality of you being able to randomly open it to any page and find the most beautiful-soul-crushing-poetic-timeless-eye-opening sentence ever
but also Victor Hugo consciously chose to make every single character is the lamest most socially inept mess and awkward crazy dork you've ever seen and it's great.