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Jane Eyre

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KELLY JONES I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reader, I married him.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reader, I married him.
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Jane Eyre
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectu...
CARY FUKUNAGA There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
WILLIAM COWPER There goes the parson, oh! illustrious spark,/ And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk!
WILLIAM COWPER I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idio...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
JASPER FFORDE I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I a...
EMILY BRONTë Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have larg...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You transfix me quite.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people we...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"

Reader, I forgave him ...
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FRANCIS JONES As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo...
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MARGUERITE YOUNG I very rarely have clients who want posed group shots before the wedding. They'd rather I capture th...
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SHERRI SHEPHERD I'd talk to him and he'd say, 'We'll have the wedding we never had. We'll have the wedding pictures ...
MICHELLE YAZZIE I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'

'Station! Station!-- y...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë What the deuce is to do now?
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the...
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NIECY NASH I watch him inhale Mary Jane .. He kisses me and blows her into my mouth. High with Mary Jane. .. Th...
NERISSA IRVING When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and endi...
S. E. HINTON Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had bee...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with eac...
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BEAU GREELY 'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English c...
EDWARD P. JONES The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman...
CRAIG FERGUSON I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was anoth...
JAMES HOWE We got married and then I left with him and had been moving around Nebraska ever since.
ARLENE JOHNSON Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoug...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for y...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe...
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UTA HAGEN Jane Jameson."
He grinned. "Like the porn star."
I gaped at him. "What? No, Jane Ja...
MOLLY HARPER I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
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SISSY SPACEK He walked in stood at the front door and had the gun pointed sideways at the clerk. There were few c...
GREG MADINGER She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART And I married into goats when I married him!
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CARY FUKUNAGA Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never ...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I just could not take it in. Magnus was vulnerable in a way because he was hopelessly shy and had ne...
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KATHERINE KELLY I did meet with him. I said he had made a mistake and that people were talking about recalling him.
BOB DAY My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
RITA RUDNER I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...
DOROTHY PARKER He had a presence about him. Very quiet, but he had a powerful voice when he wanted to use it.
DUANE THOMAS It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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...
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ALEX SOLIS We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
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LARRY STEVENS He went out and showed everybody. We were out there crying and giving each other hugs. I knew he had...
CHAD HEDRICK And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
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LIZ YOUNGWIRTH Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy
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JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
JANE JOHNSON We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la...
JANE AUSTEN Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
JANE SMILEY Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te...
JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ...
JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th...
JANE HARRISON Men are creatures with eight hands.
JANE MANSFIELD It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m...
JANE FONDA