'Persuasion', Jane Austen

[tashmania]

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not

Comments

[tashmania]

Oh god, absolutely - the first time I read that, I just stopped for a second and wondered how someone could put across something so huge in just six words.

[emotive]

You don't know how fitting this is today. Thank you.

[daysprings]

Such a perfect letter. Thanks for posting this.

[skara_brae]

Perhaps the most romantic thing Austen ever wrote...

[chailinmochroi]

the best jane austen book quote EVER, in my opinion.

this is true romance.