“ What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. Charlotte Bronte
“ You examine me, Miss Eyre, said he. Do you think me handsome?I should have deliberated, have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from… Charlotte Bronte
“ And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless life I have dragged on for months past? Doing nothing, expecting nothing; merging night… Charlotte Bronte
“ I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you hav… Charlotte Bronte
“ There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?Are you a young lady?I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I wil… Charlotte Bronte
“ I laughed at him as he said this. I am not an angel, I asserted; and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me—for you w… Charlotte Bronte
“ I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'I have not much… Charlotte Bronte
“ Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will i… Charlotte Bronte
“ It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first out of his. Charlotte Bronte
“ I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than… Charlotte Bronte
“ Come, Paul! she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed against her kinsman. I thought he receded; I thought he would go. Pierced deeper than I could endure, m… Charlotte Bronte
“ Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are… Charlotte Bronte
“ I am not an angel, I asserted; and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Charlotte Bronte
“ Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. Charlotte Bronte
“ [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. Charlotte Bronte
“ Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of… Charlotte Bronte
“ Am I a liar in your eyes? he asked passionately. Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pain… Charlotte Bronte
