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invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think--refuted more tangible proofs of convalescence, and stamped her as one doomed to decay.


Emily Brontë

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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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JAMES A. MICHENER I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to h...
MARCEL PROUST I saw her on the red carpet. It was exciting to see her in person.
ADAM GROSSBERG Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to wh...
ALMA GLUCK I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach...
THOMAS EDWARD BROWN As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is abo...
RICHARD H. DAVIS I thought she had caught it and then I looked back at her and saw she was going to throw it to first...
MALLORY RUHL When she reached me, she stopped and kissed my father on the cheek before taking my hand. However, w...
J.J. MCAVOY I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybod...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY In one case, I was working with a woman who told me initially that she was recommending me to all he...
KATHERINE CROWLEY I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget ...
CASSANDRA CLARE Alicia is always the one who takes charge now. She wasn't that way when she came here s a freshman, ...
GWEN LEWIS I did whatever I could to keep her awake, keep her talking to me, and told her to keep her eyes open...
CHRIS WILLIAMS My wife just saw one of her favorite stars [Alexander] and I had to go get an autograph for her.
ANTHONY WILLIAMS Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever...
JOE DUNTHORNE What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ But nowadays my heart is empty and the boxwood has lost its magic scent; yes, absolutely and entirel...
JULIAN GREEN I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths...
MARTHA STEWART Emily trains very hard, and her hard work should really pay off this season.
ED BOBAL Watching her talk to someone else made me crazy. I was jealous. Ridiculous. I wanted her to know me;...
TAHEREH MAFI I don't think that any [relatives] saw her after she left the hospital.
LUCILLE CZECHANSKI I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing w...
DAVID GEST My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov...
STEVEN WRIGHT When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the do...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY People tend to think we're a one-person team, but we have a lot of quality players. We have lots of ...
AMY POWELL I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later...
RACHEL SKLAR I was so excited to see her play. To have the opportunity to coach a player like that and to get to ...
BRENT HINTZ Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her.
DAN BUTLER She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To love is to think.
And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.
I don’t k...
ALBERTO CAEIRO As much as I want her by my side forever, I think an even more terrifying prospect than losing her i...
JASON MYERS Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams...
JERRY OPPENHEIMER You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ...
JUNOT DíAZ Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ...
MARIE RUTKOSKI I like everything you do to me."

"In that case"- he flipped her onto her back again, spre...
NALINI SINGH I saw everyone, a shifting sea of discomfort and sadness, each person carrying his own pain, each te...
JENNIFER BROWN I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses...
KAZUO ISHIGURO But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mothe...
VERONICA ROTH She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fa...
JOHN GREEN I've gotta get to know her... I should get drunk with her.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE I caught a red bird once,
I fell in love with her,
Took the red bird home with me,
I...
QUETZAL It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of q...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I didn't see Angela until her second-to-last high school basketball game. I didn't know much about h...
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ANGEL JR. If Indian Vale is as good as we think she is and she runs her race, she'll make me look good. If I m...
ANGEL JR If Indian Vale is as good as we think she is and she runs her race, she'll make me look good, ... If...
ANGEL CORDERO JR. If Indian Vale is as good as we think she is and she runs her race, she'll make me look good. If I m...
ANGEL CORDERO JR I saw her when she was born. I carried her when she was born. I carried her when she died. I saw her...
EDWIN REYES She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how comple...
OLIVIA SUDJIC When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and m...
MARIO TESTINO I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she...
NEIL GAIMAN I just think it's better for the team to know they have to look at one person on the floor. I have t...
MUFFET MCGRAW A person who says "I lobe you" to every one & than leaves him/her usually ends up as a lonely Patien...
AYAZ MUNIR When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified. into paralysis, she collapsed...
JOHN GREEN I think it's one of our best. You need to look at her teeth and her eyes. I think they're fantastic.
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BILL RUSSELL Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ...
ANDREW MORTON How could she just leave me here to live without her? I miss her so much. I love her. I want her to ...
AVA DELLAIRA Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understa...
VERONICA ROTH When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her...
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DANIEL AMORY My wife told me the other day that I don't take her to expensive places any more, so I took her to t...
ANONYMOUS I don't think I ever saw her.
JAMES BOYLE I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.
JULIETTE BINOCHE I saw her first loose tooth. I saw her haircut, new outfits _ things you want to see on a daily basi...
MICHAEL GOUGH Honey, tonight am all yours. You can eat me for dinner
SOTONYE ANGA Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what i...
SIMONE ELKELES A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her.
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DAVE GOLDBERG I was thinking of Anna. I make myself think of her, I do it as an exercise. She is lodged in me like...
JOHN BANVILLE I think she's amazing. After first meeting her, I wanted to just listen to her more and wanted her t...
RANDY CHARLES Emily tucks her knees up beneath her and leans forward on the table. 'Do you like Ryan?' she asks Ni...
JENNIFER E. SMITH There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and he...
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SHELLY ARREDONDO People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'

I am not aware of it. And to me it is one o...
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May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to
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EMILY BRONTë Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ...
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EMILY BRONTë You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTë It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m...
EMILY BRONTë It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
EMILY BRONTë She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTë Terror made me cruel . . .
EMILY BRONTë Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ...
EMILY BRONTë He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTë Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...
EMILY BRONTë A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTë You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...
EMILY BRONTë I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
EMILY BRONTë Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...
EMILY BRONTë Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
EMILY BRONTë If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and ...
EMILY BRONTë I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with ...
EMILY BRONTë Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTë As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
EMILY BRONTë I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to...
EMILY BRONTë And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as ...
EMILY BRONTë My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but ...
EMILY BRONTë I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in the...
EMILY BRONTë I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
EMILY BRONTë I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existe...
EMILY BRONTë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I cou...
EMILY BRONTë He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee...
EMILY BRONTë Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T...
EMILY BRONTë My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but ...
EMILY BRONTë He comes with western winds, with evening's
wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heave...
EMILY BRONTë But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy, EMILY BRONTë How clear she shines ! How quietly
I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and ear...
EMILY BRONTë What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
EMILY BRONTë Hope Was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would te...
EMILY BRONTë The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds forebodin...
EMILY BRONTë Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn,
And lust of fame was but a dream...
EMILY BRONTë He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself th...
EMILY BRONTë The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired, tired of being enclosed ...
EMILY BRONTë And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
EMILY BRONTë But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I mu...
EMILY BRONTë My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter ...
EMILY BRONTë It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
EMILY BRONTë I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...
EMILY BRONTë I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly throu...
EMILY BRONTë You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt f...
EMILY BRONTë Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse th...
EMILY BRONTë The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorn...
EMILY BRONTë Honest people don't hide their deeds.
EMILY BRONTë I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!
EMILY BRONTë I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that nei...
EMILY BRONTë Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever; your veins are full of ice water; but mine are boilin...
EMILY BRONTë I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to f...
EMILY BRONTë They DO live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous externa...
EMILY BRONTë And the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows.
EMILY BRONTë I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every wor...
EMILY BRONTë If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
EMILY BRONTë He’s not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfi...
EMILY BRONTë Is she sane?’ asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. ‘I’ll repeat our conversation, word for word...
EMILY BRONTë I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free...I'm sure I should be myself were I onc...
EMILY BRONTë Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am alwa...
EMILY BRONTë I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they hav...
EMILY BRONTë She dried her tears, and they did smile
To see her cheeks’ returning glow;
Nor did disce...
EMILY BRONTë If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their result...
EMILY BRONTë The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I a...
EMILY BRONTë It's wrong to anticipate evil.
EMILY BRONTë To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.
EMILY BRONTë I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!
EMILY BRONTë At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost...
EMILY BRONTë I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
EMILY BRONTë I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!...
EMILY BRONTë It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
EMILY BRONTë My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from th...
EMILY BRONTë They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
EMILY BRONTë May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.
EMILY BRONTë Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
EMILY BRONTë I love my murderer--but yours? How can I?
EMILY BRONTë Are you possessed with a devil,' he pursued, savagely, 'to talk in that manner to me when you are dy...
EMILY BRONTë and firstly, let me beware of the fascination that lurks in Catherine Heathcliff's brilliant eyes. I...
EMILY BRONTë He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her...
EMILY BRONTë It was a marvelous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her
EMILY BRONTë The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him…
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EMILY BRONTë He shall never know how I love him
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EMILY BRONTë Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends ...
EMILY BRONTë It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
EMILY BRONTë Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on ...
EMILY BRONTë Je suis sans pitié ! Je suis sans pitié ! Plus les vers se tordent, plus grande est mon envie de l...
EMILY BRONTë I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.
EMILY BRONTë Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promi...
EMILY BRONTë Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more yo...
EMILY BRONTë Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;
My outward sense is gone, my inward ess...
EMILY BRONTë If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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EMILY Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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ANNE BRONTë I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTë I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reader, I married him.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."

"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all re...
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ANNE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when ...
ANNE BRONTë It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it ...
ANNE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ...
ANNE BRONTë You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take...
ANNE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace

The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in othe...
ANNE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...
ANNE BRONTë Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ...
ANNE BRONTë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our o...
ANNE BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charm...
ANNE BRONTë I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird, no net ensnares me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë