“ I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want. Charlotte Bronte
“ Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so… Charlotte Bronte
“ Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong. Charlotte Bronte
“ Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell. Charlotte Bronte
“ The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to be natural, or wish to imitate: were I obliged to copy these char… Charlotte Bronte
“ One moment longer, whispered solitude and the summer moon, stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an hour your presence will not be missed: the day's heat and bustle have tired y… Charlotte Bronte
“ No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind and tide before he allows himself to cry out, 'I a… Charlotte Bronte
“ Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say. She was very showy, but she was not genuine; she had a fine person, many… Charlotte Bronte
“ Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will;… Charlotte Bronte
“ It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired. Charlotte Bronte
“ I would not be you for a kingdom.'The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said -'Very good.''And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired.'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I… Charlotte Bronte
“ I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane? Charlotte Bronte
“ I ever wished to look as well as I could, and to please as much as my want of beauty would permit. I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer; I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight no… Charlotte Bronte
“ For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades… Charlotte Bronte
