“ Never, said he, as he ground his teeth, never was anything at onceso frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she feels in my hand! (And heshook me with the force of his hold.) I could bend her with my f… Charlotte Bronte
“ Evening SolaceThe human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days may pass in ga… Charlotte Bronte
“ Estoy segura de que nunca confundiré la falta de buenas formas con la insolencia. Lo primero me parece bien; a lo segundo, ningún ser humano nacido libre debe someterse, ni siquiera por un sueldo. Charlotte Bronte
“ Do you think that I am a machine? That I can bear it?Do you think because I'm poor, plain, obsure, and littlethat I have no heart? That I'm without soul?I have as much heart as you and as much soul.An… Charlotte Bronte
“ Courage, Lucy Snowe! With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not to complain that such an object is too selfish, too limited, and… Charlotte Bronte
“ But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. Charlotte Bronte
“ Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?I could risk no sort of answer by this time; my heart was full.Because, he said, I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when y… Charlotte Bronte
“ All the melody on earth is concentrated in my Jane's tongue to my ear (I am glad it is not a naturally silent one): all the sunshine I can feel is in her presence. Charlotte Bronte
“ A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. Charlotte Bronte
“ You think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement: the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your f… Charlotte Bronte
“ And she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.' Charlotte Bronte
“ Mr. Rochester continued to be blind the first two years of our union; perhaps it was that circumstance that drew us so very near -- that knit us so very close; for I was then his vision, as I am still… Charlotte Bronte
“ I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you Charlotte Bronte
“ I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I… Charlotte Bronte
“ I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me. Charlotte Bronte
“ Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both. No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Hap… Charlotte Bronte
“ Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am… Charlotte Bronte
“ Do you like him much?'I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'Is he?'All boys are. Charlotte Bronte
“ Come, Miss Jane, don't cry,' said Bessie, as she finished. She might as well have said to the fire, 'Don't burn!' but how could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a prey? Charlotte Bronte
“ Certainly, at some hour, though perhaps not hour, the waiting waters will stir; in shape, though perhaps not the shape you dreamed, which your heart loved, and for which it bled, the healing herald… Charlotte Bronte
