Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man?" It would be past the power of magic, sir;" and, in thought, I added,"a loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather, your sternness has a power beyond beauty." Mr. Rochester had sometimes read my unspoken thoughts with an acumen to me incomprehensible: in the presnt instance he took no notice of my abrupt vocal response; but he smiled at me with a certain smile he had of his own, and which he used but on rare occasions. He seemed to think too good for common purpose: it was the real sunshine of feeling-he shed it over me now.
Charlotte Brontë
Related Just think of me as the shoe fairy.” Then he acted like he was bonking me on the head with an imag... KRISTEN ASHLEY I'm going to go with my read. What tipped me off was, if he had a real hand, he would've bet $30,000... DANIEL NEGREANU I was in a terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fi... JAMES BALDWIN If you will thank me," he replied, "let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness ... JANE AUSTEN Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are thi... C.G. JUNG 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON It’s complicated, and I won’t pretend that part of me still feels betrayed by what he did. But o... KAYLEA CROSS Then I saw that sparkle in Naji's eye and knew he was laughing at me. "See?" he said. "Now you ... CASSANDRA ROSE CLARKE You just were so cold with me. 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TERRY MCMILLAN When you took me from the witch trial at Cranesmuir--you said then that you would have died with me,... DIANA GABALDON You have no idea of what you are doing to me,” he warned. She smiled. “Are you trying to fr... AMANDA QUICK Percy wakes me (fourteen) Percy wakes me and I am not ready. He has slept all night ... MARY OLIVER In my rush, I hadn’t tied my shoelaces. Noah was now tying them for me. He looked up at me t... MICHELLE HODKIN After a minute, I look up and the boy named Leo is staring at me. I stare back, but he doesn´t look... MIA SHERIDAN This flirting is all well and good, but I mean it when I tell you, I cant have you leaving me again.... CHRISTINA LAUREN Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that add... JIMMY CONNORS There were many things he had to tell her, but what he really needed to say was simple. “I’ve mi... BONNIE DEE I could feel his whole body trying to claim me, want me, own me in lust, and it made me feel so valu... FIONA THRUST She smiled as she poured tea into his cup. “I hope you find your rooms comfortable?” “Qui... ELIZABETH HOYT He squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me. I realized that I hadn't kissed him hello, I always k... LAURELL K. HAMILTON You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beau... JERRY SPINELLI My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on th... CALVIN COOLIDGE I didn't just love him…I needed him. Not in some desperate "you complete me" sort of way. No, Vinc... ANGELA N. BLOUNT Do you know what I see in you now? The usual aura. A steady golden yellow, healthy and strong, with ... RICHELLE MEAD I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" VERONICA ROTH He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN He looks at me. His face is dotted with raindrops but I think there are tears too. 'I love her... SALLY GREEN Dimitri. I hadn't known he was here. His eyes were on me too,dark and endless. Only I couldn't ... RICHELLE MEAD I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that h... ASHWIN SANGHI Tell me not of joy: there's none
Now my little sparrow's gone;
He, just as you,
Would t... WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, H... WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT You look different." His words, normally crisp,are now sluggish. "So do you," I say.And he does... VERONICA ROTH For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de... LORD CHESTERFIELD I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound lik... LISA KLEYPAS I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i... ELIZABETH HOYT Dear daughter, I won't try to call my feeling for Arty love. Call it focus. My focus on Art was an a... KATHERINE DUNN Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab... 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NEAL SHUSTERMAN He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of p... TANYA TUCKER Tyrion felt the heat rise in him. “It was not my dagger,” he insisted. “How many times must I ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My Father taught me how to be a man and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda ... KEVIN SMITH He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one u... COCO J. GINGER And recite to them the news of Abraham When he said to his father and his people: What do you ... QURAN You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you s... SUZANNE COLLINS Sure you are," Jack replied. He sashayed up next to me, and yes, it was a sashay, he was far too dam... CANDICE GILMER That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travele... 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MICHAEL GRANT As he looked at me, he seemed to send a message of his own: that he would still fight for me, that h... RICHELLE MEAD You told me you believed marriage was for other people." "You're the only man who could m... LISA KLEYPAS Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done ... VICTOR HUGO If you wanted to tell stories, he could tell them into the night. I used to kid that every story he ... MARLIN FITZWATER And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?... CORRIE TEN BOOM ..something like that make me feel what Rhonda, what Farrakhan, say - there is a god. But me when I ... SAPPHIRE The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain t... LYDIA DAVIS Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such ques... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted to tur... LAUREN ALCORN Horace’s pulse was racing and adrenaline was surging into his system. But he showed no sign of it.... JOHN FLANAGAN Sometimes, when he looked at me…I felt him. I didn’t know how much of his soul was intact, but h... CHRISTINA L. BARR For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by h... RACHEL HARTMAN I did not run to him, but I did wrap my arms around him, press my ear to his chest, hold on to him a... LAURELL K. HAMILTON
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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... CHARLOTTE BRONTë When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoug... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have larg... 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. CHARLOTTE BRONTë But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there... 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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 Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h... 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