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When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Fire rises out of the lunar mountains: when she is cold, I'll carry her up to a peak, and lay her down on the edge of a crater.

Alas, Experience!

Brainless and vicious youth whom I had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely.

Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach?

All has changed about me, sir; I must change too - there is no doubt of that...

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality:

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return.

Stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips.

But solitude is sadness.'
'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued.

I thought not. And so you were waiting for your people when you sat on that stile?" "For whom, sir?

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help.

Then the curtain rises, and you will see the girl to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything that is good in me.

I pronounced them with such frantic energy.

All the room darkened and my heart again sank; inexpressible sadness weighed it down

He, I believe, never remembered that I had eyes in my head, much less a brain behind them.

Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior

That I have wakened out of most glorious dreams, and found them all void and vain, is a horror I could bear and master

Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Stay your weary little wandering feet at a friend's threshold.

Stick to the needle, learn shirt-making and gown-making and piecrust-making, and you will be a clever woman some day.

There are certain things in which we so rarely meet with our double that it seems a miracle when that chance befalls.

Who has words at the right moment?

The longer we live, the more our experience widens; the less prone are we to judge our neighbor's conduct.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off their gravestones, and leave their dear names free from soil.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.

But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Misery generates hate.

I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon.

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

And I am a hard woman, -impossible to put off.

Wicked and cruel boy! I said. You are like a murderer - you are like a slave-driver - you are like the Roman emperors!

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

Would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?

Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late!

This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart

To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break ... I am ever tender and true.

You, Jane, I must have you for my own
entirely my own.

It is in vain to say human beings

Women are supposed to be calm generally: but women feel just as men feel ...

It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.

I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'
- Jane Eyre

Sir, you have now given me my 'cadeau;' I am obliged to you: it is the meed teachers most covet-praise of their pupils' progress.

And it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it ...

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter.

As much goodwill may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

Ex-act-ly, pre-cisely: with your usual acuteness, you have hit the nail straight on the head.

Now here (he pointed to the leafy enclosure we had entered) all is real, sweet, and pure

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

He fumed like a bottled storm.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

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

...but I believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold.

Farewell!" was the cry of my heart as I left him. Despair added, "Farewell for ever!

He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.

Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel.

door, and locking it behind them.

I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me

With what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged!

I often think it would be such luxury to go mad, and not have to worry about anything. Others would have to worry for me, about me.

God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us;

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.

CHAPTER VII WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

Very good looking, with black hair and eyes, and lively complexion.

Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

I was left there alone - winner of the field. It was the hardest battle I had fought, and the first victory I had gained.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Mademoiselle is a fairy, he said, whispering mysteriously.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

All my life was awake and astir in my frame ... and he I was not to array myself to meet.

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

ebullition of the sensations. I had long felt

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.