persuasion.
"...she was very much affected by the view of his disposition towards her which all these things made apparent. this little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before. she understood him. he could not forgive her, - but he could not be unfeeling. though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. it was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of a pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed."
jane austen, writing of anne elliot and captain frederick wentworth.
"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 say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. i have loved none but you. unjust i may have been, weak and resentful i have been, but never inconstant. you alone have brought me to bath. for you alone i think and plan. have you not seen this? can you fail to have understood my wishes? i had not waited even these ten days, could i have read you feelings, as i think you must have penetrated mine. i can hardly write. i am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. you sink your voice, but i can distinguish the tones of that voice, when they would be lost on others. too good, too excellent creature! you do us justice indeed. you do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. believe it to be fervent, most undeviating in..."
letter from frederick wentworth to anne elliot, from the novel persuasion by jane austen.
i am in love with this book :)
currently reading jane eyre by charlottle bronte and it has been captivating thus far, i can't wait to finish it :) will be on the lookout for wuthering heights by emily bronte (i know right, two great authors and they're sisters, awesomeee blood right there)
next on my reading list for the holidays is mansfield park, again by jane austen.
my other friends are on holiday too now :D and syith's coming home tmrw/day after that! :D oh and i know how to make black icing already :D
will update more soon. no, i haven't JUST been reading the whole time :)