{"id":136871,"date":"2015-09-13T10:45:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T10:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/13\/witcheponine-ok-so-one-of-my-fav-lines-in-the\/"},"modified":"2015-09-13T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T10:45:59","slug":"witcheponine-ok-so-one-of-my-fav-lines-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/13\/witcheponine-ok-so-one-of-my-fav-lines-in-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

witcheponine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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ok so one of my fav lines in the musical from a purely aesthetic perspective has always been\u00a0cosette\u2019s\u00a0\u201cevery day you walk with stronger step \/ you walk with longer step \/ the worst is over\u201d part at the start of every day\/a heart full of love (reprise) – honestly i just find the melody really lovely and the longer\/stronger internal rhyme is #nice.<\/p>\n

but then i actually thought about that line, and how marius has a hell of a lot more than physical injuries to recover from.<\/p>\n

and now i\u2019m thinking about cosette, with her incredible capacity for love and tenderness, supporting marius through every step of his grief: sitting up in bed with him for hours talking about nothing in particular when the awful nightmares stop sleep from coming; holding him tight when he has flashbacks, grounding him and reminding him that he\u2019s safe; reassuring him over and over that it\u2019s not his fault, that he doesn\u2019t have to feel guilty for still being alive when his friends are not<\/p>\n

and imagine her pride as he grows stronger and day by day his panic attacks grow a little less frequent, his sleep a little more restful, and eventually he\u2019s able to leave the house again – just for the briefest of walks at first, but steadily longer each time. and then one day she catches him absent mindedly humming to himself as he makes a cup of tea, and its almost cheerful. and he starts talking about the future – things he\u2019d like to do, places he\u2019d like to go –\u00a0instead of being trapped in the past, back in the barricade or the empty shell of the cafe musain. and of course they both know this kind of loss isn\u2019t something you ever fully recover from, not really, but at last it looks like the worst might just be over<\/i><\/p>\n

so now this is what i think about when i hear that line and it always makes me want to cry<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

witcheponine: ok so one of my fav lines in the musical from a purely aesthetic perspective has always been\u00a0cosette\u2019s\u00a0\u201cevery day you walk with stronger step \/ you walk with longer step \/ the worst is over\u201d part at the start of every day\/a heart full of love (reprise) – honestly i just find the melody … <\/p>\n

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