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Villette by Charlotte Brontë
4.0

Villette sweetie I'm so sorry I didn't appreciate you as a teen you are not boring at all, I adore you. Charlotte Bronte will never be my favourite Bronte because her taste in men is frankly a disaster, but damn "happiness is not a potato"??? My favourite fucking line. And Lucy Snowe!!! Narrates this whole thing and TELLS YOU ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, the audacity of this girl!!!

And re: Schrödinger's shipwreck and the famed unhappy ending, girl that was the best possible outcome let's be honest, and in this regard makes Villette way better than Jane Eyre. Anyway I love you Charlotte for your dedication to depressing realism and also to ghost nuns and dramatic fires and creepy attics, and Lucy Snowe if you knew more than two unmarried men in the world I promise you could have done better.