You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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Do you want t... SHAY DAWKINS For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live withou... DIANA GABALDON you have right to disagree with me. you have right to understand what you had understand ( of course... DR. SHAILESH THAKER Death comes to you soon when you are afraid of it, so you have to live as you will not have to be af... NISHI DE SILVA You are my Lord and King; You are my sovereign and graceful God. What I have You graciously gave me,... NORM TOMLINSON There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for i... TANA FRENCH Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. I will go where you go and live where you live. Your people... BIBLE How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't w... AYN RAND Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour... DAVID HUME What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marian... JANE AUSTEN When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that'... TRACY MCGRADY I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for Go... MOTHER TERESA I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time ... MOTHER TERESA It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agre... BEN OKRI Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You... ERIN MORGENSTERN Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech th... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for c... THOMAS MERTON Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write not... J.C. RYLE You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR THE INVITATION by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a li... ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you fee... RACHEL L. SCHADE It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you l... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE You are always here with me when I do so, at least in my heart, and it is impossible for me to remem... NICHOLAS SPARKS Some People Say They Can't Live Without Love And Gets Heart Broken Later On in Life, Then Think Abou... NASRULLAH SULTAN Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re saf... ROBERT M. DRAKE I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and h... MAEVE BINCHY Perhaps you would have preferred it if I had not written you any letter. Perhaps you would have like... FéLIX J. PALMA Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal... THOMAS CARLYLE If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece ... JESSICA VERDAY My dearest, I write this letter by candlelight as you lie sleeping. And though I can't hear th... NICHOLAS SPARKS You spoil the sacraments of the Church, you tear up the articles of the Faith, you destroy the churc... JOAN OF ARC You must always do what you feel is right As you will have to live with your decisions for the ... MIMI NOVIC Noah: Would you just stay with me? Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fi... NICHOLAS SPARKS Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Jesus Christ came not to condemn you but to save you, knowing your name, knowing all about you, know... A.W. TOZER A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend." His Mother says: "Why did yo... VERONICA ROTH Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon... WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key... WOODROW T. WILSON God I have come to you in prayer, not because I'm in need, but because you have been always there fo... ERIKA F. CASADO There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shak... WILLIAM GOLDMAN Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T... EMILY BRONTë I lived for you. And I lived for Will, and then I lived for Tessa - and for myself, because I wanted... CASSANDRA CLARE When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it th... WOODROW WILSON: And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long... HENRY JAMES Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them... GERMANY KENT When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to... JOSS WHEDON I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But... PETER S. BEAGLE You scared the shit out of me last night, so forgive me if I don't want to hear fine as an answer."<... KATIE MCGARRY I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't w... ANAïS NIN Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... ... RAINER MARIA RILKE when I pass away I don't want you to endure in the pain of my lost. I want you to remember me for th... ROSA M. BETANCES When I start to get tired asking about you, and lose interest with what you do... that's when i stop... MARICEL CONSOLACION You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you. No one ... ALEXANDER CHEE I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when ... IAIN PEARS All the fires of hell could burn for a thousand years and it wouldn't equal what I feel for you in o... LISA KLEYPAS If you honestly feel you have done something so terrible that you cannot be forgiven, then I am will... CHRISTOPHER PIKE I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I wi... CASSANDRA CLARE I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have ... MINDY KALING It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what y... STEPHEN CURRY If Jem dies, I cannot be with Tessa,” said Will. “Because it will be as if I were waiting for hi... CASSANDRA CLARE I will take your heart. I will take your soul out of your body As though I were God. ... LANGSTON HUGHES If I had 10 cookies and you took half, do you know what you would have? That's right, a black eye an... ANONYMOUS So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, ... NEIL GAIMAN I own you, Erica. Your heart, the blood that beats through it when I hold you down this way. Your b... MEREDITH WILD
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May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - ... EMILY BRONTë Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. 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 ... EMILY BRONTë Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did no... EMILY BRONTë Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea... 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 invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think--refuted more tangible proof... 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… EMILY BRONTë He shall never know how I love him EMILY BRONTë I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I op... 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. EMILY BRONTë If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such explosi... EMILY Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. ANNE BRONTë I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co... ANNE BRONTë I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge... CHARLOTTE BRONTë No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno... 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! CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:... ANNE BRONTë If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me. CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. CHARLOTTE BRONTë We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the gr... 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. CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish ... 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. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to... CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br... 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... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl... CHARLOTTE BRONTë In genere si crede che le donne siano molto quiete: le donne invece provano gli stessi sentimenti de... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. 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. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you... CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th... CHARLOTTE BRONTë At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance... 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