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This is the first book I ever remember loving. I read it when I was fourteen, and clearly remember thinking, “This. This is why people love reading so much.”
I’ve read it many times as an adult and, truthfully, Jane’s Mary Sue-ness grates on my nerves a little now. But I keep coming back to it because it taught me how to escape into another world, if only for a little while.
— Mar 14, 2023 04:25PM
I’ve read it many times as an adult and, truthfully, Jane’s Mary Sue-ness grates on my nerves a little now. But I keep coming back to it because it taught me how to escape into another world, if only for a little while.
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M Gregs
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I love this book more than nearly any other book, but Jane becoming emaciated and nearly dying after not eating for two days is one of the silliest episodes in literature.
— Sep 12, 2025 04:25PM
M Gregs
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“And this is what I wished to have […] this young girl, who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell, looking collectedly at the gambols of a demon, I wanted her just as a change after that fierce ragout.”
Charming, Rochester, as ever.
— Mar 28, 2023 07:36PM
Charming, Rochester, as ever.
M Gregs
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I don’t know what it says about me that I still know all of Jane/Rochester’s conversations by heart even though I haven’t read this book for over a decade.
Actually I do. #hopelessromantic
— Mar 25, 2023 02:25PM
Actually I do. #hopelessromantic
M Gregs
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Edward Rochester is a singularly moody bitch and I love him even more now than I did when I was 14 because I strongly identify with how much he hates being in his thirties.
— Mar 22, 2023 07:08PM
