ever so close to happiness

Keven 2022-04-21 09:02:42

I used to be so close to happiness, but my heart full of guilt and self-blame would not be happy even with the person I love.
I can't tell if Jane's choice is the right one. I always hope that there will be a fairy tale ending like a lover's family, but now I don't know which choice will be happier.
My favorite scene is when Jane is fleeing, Tom is waiting for her at the door as soon as she looks up, the sun prints them gold. "Regret?" The answer was an affectionate kiss. In the future, Jane will spend her whole life to miss those beautiful and short days.
At the end of the film, Jane writes in her novel
"She began now to comprehend
that he was exactly the man who,
in disposition and talents,

would most suit her.

His understanding and temper,
though unlike her own,

would have answered all her wishes.

It was an union that must have been
to the advantage of both.

By her ease and liveliness,

his mind might have been softened,
his manners improved,

and from his judgment,
information and knowledge of the world,

she must have received benefit
of greater importance.

But no such happy marriage
could now teach the admiring multitude

what connubial felicity really was
. Not a pity either.

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Becoming Jane quotes

  • Judge Langlois: Wild companions, gambling, running around St James's like a neck-or-nothing young blood of the fancy. What kind of lawyer will that make?

    Tom Lefroy: Typical.

  • Tom Lefroy: I have been told there is much to see upon a walk, but all I've detected so far is a general tendency to green above and brown below.

    Jane Austen: Yes, well, others have detected more. It is celebrated. There's even a book about Selborne Wood.

    Tom Lefroy: Oh. A novel, perhaps?

    Jane Austen: Novels? Being poor, insipid things, read by mere women, even, God forbid, written by mere women?.

    Tom Lefroy: I see, we're talking of your reading.

    Jane Austen: As if the writing of women did not display the greatest powers of mind, knowledge of human nature, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour and the best-chosen language imaginable?