“ Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished her mind with pictures. Charlotte Bronte
“ Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them along the road; or when, whil… Charlotte Bronte
“ I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field of… Charlotte Bronte
“ A phase of my life was closing to-night, anew one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was beingaccomplished. Charlotte Bronte
“ Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest. Charlotte Bronte
“ I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as befor… Charlotte Bronte
“ My spirit is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the will of Heaven Charlotte Bronte
“ Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. Charlotte Bronte
“ No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim, and you the priest to transfix it. Charlotte Bronte
“ A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of rea… Charlotte Bronte
“ Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart’s blood must gem with red beads the brow of the combata… Charlotte Bronte
“ The hopes that, in my own heart sown,And cherished by such sun and rain,As Joy and transient Sorrow shed,Have ripened to a harvest there: Charlotte Bronte
“ Swifts, on a fine morning in May, flying this way, that way, sailing around at a great hight, perfectly happily. Then, one leaps onto the back of another, grasps tightly and forgetting to fly they bot… Charlotte Bronte
“ We can burst the bonds which chain us,Which cold human hands have wrought,And where none shall dare restrain usWe can meet again, in thought. Charlotte Bronte
“ How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought! Charlotte Bronte
“ I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester Charlotte Bronte
“ As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. Charlotte Bronte
“ Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer-if ever I wished a righteous wish-I am rewarded now. To be yo… Charlotte Bronte
