“ Something real, cool, and solid, lies before you something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. Charlotte Bronte
“ Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, self… Charlotte Bronte
“ Meantime, let me ask myself one question--Which is better?--To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort--no struggle;--but to have sunk down in the silken snare; fal… Charlotte Bronte
“ Impatiently I waited for evening, when I might summon you to my presence. An unusual– to me– a perfectly new character, I suspected was yours; I desired to search it deeper, and know it better. You en… Charlotte Bronte
“ I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar stri… Charlotte Bronte
“ I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it, and framed an humbler supplication; for change, stimulus;… Charlotte Bronte
“ I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! To what end?To the end of turning to profit the talents which God has committed to your keeping; and of which he w… Charlotte Bronte
“ You may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you Charlotte Bronte
“ Young ladies have a remarkable way of letting you know that they think you a quiz without actually saying the words. A certain superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, expres… Charlotte Bronte
“ You, I said, a favourite with Mr. Rochester? You gifted with the power of pleasing him? You of importance to him in any way? Go! your folly sickens me. And you have derived pleasure from occasional to… Charlotte Bronte
“ When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black. Charlotte Bronte
“ There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair. Much, too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be… Charlotte Bronte
“ There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early… Charlotte Bronte
“ Ogni atomo della sua carne mi è caro come la mia propria; l'amerei malata, l'amerei infelice.Il suo animo è il mio tesoro e anche se si smarrisse continuerebbe ad esserlo. Se delirasse, le mie braccia… Charlotte Bronte
“ I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like thesternness and stillness of the world under this frost. Charlotte Bronte
“ But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who sh… Charlotte Bronte
“ And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting- called to the paradise of union- I thought only o… Charlotte Bronte
