“Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I had feelings: passive as I lived, little as I spoke, cold as I looked, when I thought of past days, I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Reason might be right; yet no wonder we are glad at times to defy her, to rush from under her rod and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you like to fall into that… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“(But) I learned in time that this benignity, this cordiality, this music, belonged in no shape to me: it was a part… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I did. Mr. Rochester, reading my countenance, saw I had done so. His fury was wrought to the highest: he must yield… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be a little sense of life in you yet, rising… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“…the matter was new to me, and I had no material for its treatment. But I got books, read up the facts,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Take the matter as you find it: ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread, and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was-… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The broad white road unrolled before the long procession, the sun and sky surveyed it cloudless, the wind tossed the tree boughs… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“He is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. What… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Not a tie hold me to human society at this moment - not a charm or hope calls me where my fellow-creatures… — Charlotte bronte Copy Share Image
“One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“But soon I said to myself, “The Hope I am bemoaning suffered and made me suffer much: it did not die till… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
