Book #18 - Jane Eyre
Oct. 7th, 2007 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janetlinSo, you've all heard me squee about this as I was working through it, and I'm finally done. Wow, why did I never like this type of book before? Perhaps I was too young to appreciate it. Now I'm tempted to give Wuthering Heights another try (in my oodles of spare time, yes).
Goodness, Jane and Rochester are so OTP!! "Reader, I married him." That's just so Jane to put it so plainly, yet I squealed like a fangirl. And I think my favorite paragraph ever:
"I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest--blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character--perfect concord is the result."
Just... guh. Even better than the love letter in Persuasion. This is what they mean when they say, "And they lived happily ever after."
Title: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Pages: 452
Goodness, Jane and Rochester are so OTP!! "Reader, I married him." That's just so Jane to put it so plainly, yet I squealed like a fangirl. And I think my favorite paragraph ever:
"I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest--blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character--perfect concord is the result."
Just... guh. Even better than the love letter in Persuasion. This is what they mean when they say, "And they lived happily ever after."
Title: Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Pages: 452
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