«Growing up brought responsibilities, he found. Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought. Nature's logic was too horrid for him to care for. That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived.» (from Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter II) ~ #CurrentlyReading: Jude the Obscure by #ThomasHardy. It is so bleak... probably the bleakest novel I've ever read, and I've been waiting for a silver lining for Jude, just an intrinsically good man with "natural" instincts, who wanted to pursue his dreams! And Sue Bridehead, what a deconstructing character... There's going to be more to tell on my review post! ~ «It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven.» (from Part Second: At Christminster, Chapter IV) ~ #JudeTheObscure #Jude #JudeFawley #SueBridehead #ArabellaDonn #MrPhillotson #RichardPhillotson #Christminster #naturalism #book #books #bookstagram #bibliophile #englishnovel #victoriannovel #novel #currentread #reading #read #bookish #instabook #literature #bookclub #bookworm #booknerd #booktube #classics #oxfordworldsclassics https://www.instagram.com/p/BtGmvjjH3zc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=26m2xkwkc72d