maria ⋆˙♡ ’s Reviews > This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life > Status Update

about to finish this (the actual written part of the book minus its references and post notes, I mean) and I already miss her and them so much 🦢🐚💌🍵☁️🐑🪽

green tea 🍵 and this ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

drinking chamomile tea 🍵 and reading this til I fall asleep 🪐

this book has the dangerous side effect of making me want to reread Wuthering Heights

Anne is who I'd like to be; Emily is how people think I am; Charlotte is who I really am (⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠)

once again I am so grateful for having been born in the 21st century (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)

reading while eating popcorn! 🍿

the more I read about her life the more I thank the heavens for having been born exactly where I was and exactly I the time I was, not a year before or after

of course she's a Leo, by the way. I mean. duh.

"Within the span of eight years, she met Patrick, married him, and had six children."

sometimes I forget that what used to be the common life for women is quite literally a horror story. terrorism even