Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

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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

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...
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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
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Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
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Reader, I married him.
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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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CHARLOTTE 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 ...
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“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so v...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of hi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a simil...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë (...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me wh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now, I've another errand for you,' said my untiring master; "you must away to my room again. What a ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'

'Station! Station!-- y...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë What the deuce is to do now?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other wall...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked.

“Oh no! About six months ago I had...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then ...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"

Reader, I forgave him ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would take a great deal to crush me
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upw...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He that is low need fear no fall.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All men must die.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are human and fallible.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

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