How To Love Me
I’m reading Emma by Jane Austen at the moment, and this afternoon I came across a passage that took my breath away:
“He had ridden home through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults, bore the discovery.”
Oh, to be loved like that. To be, in someone’s eyes, the “sweetest and best of all creatures.” For them to see me as “faultless in spite of all my faults.”
I think I just swooned.
I know what you mean.
Comment by Ammon — August 22, 2007 @ August 22, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Don’t we all?
*sigh*
Comment by Georgia — August 24, 2007 @ August 24, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Have you seen “Becoming Jane”? The movie made me love the books even more, if that were possible.
Comment by Cmommy — August 25, 2007 @ August 25, 2007 at 6:51 pm
i’m swooning too…it’s been a long time since i’ve read emma…
Comment by la vie en rose — September 13, 2007 @ September 13, 2007 at 8:50 am