Jane Eyre - Hay naku! One year.... as in! Took me a year to finish reading this
nosebleed-very-hard-to-comprehend-old-english-words book..phew! Fascinating
story though. loved it!!
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can
bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of
living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor,
obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think
wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God
had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it
as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not
talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor
even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just
as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet,
equal — as we are!” page 319
