Jane Eyre Challenge

After recovering from my Villette heart break, I'm onto the classic, one of my favs of all time (or is it still?)

http://www.goodreads.com/challenges/3-the-jane-eyre-read-the-book-see-the-movie-challenge

Did I mention I FINALLY got a library card?!

And why I love Bronte (aka Currier Bell) even more...this was taken from the Preface of the second edition...

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns". Amen sister.

Villette ending.

I just finished....and I'm very emotional about it.

Why, Bronte WHY?! WHY?!???!?!!?!

I'm so heartbroken right now.

And I'm certain I will die alone.

I haven't felt this much for a book since I read a few of McCarthy.

Damn. I'm gonna go watch the Lakers v. Spurs game now and try to not think about this.

Villette. Still

I know I know, I'm not off to a good start with my reading this year. I'm still reading Villette and I just promised my friend that I will be under house arrest today until I finish it. This whole working 80 hour weeks and then watching basketball has not been good for my reading time.

Here is a passage that I loved...

"How seem in the eyes of that God who made all firmaments, from whose nostrils issued whatever of life is here, or in the stars, shining yonder-- how seem the differences of man? But as Time is not for God, nor Space, so neither is Measure, nor Comparison. We abase ourselves in littleness, and we do right; yet it may be that the constancy of one heart, the truth and faith of one mind according to the light He has appointed, import as much to Him as the just motion of satellites about their planets, of planets about their suns, of suns around that mighty unseen centre incomprehensible, irealizable, with strange mental effort only divined."