--- title: "1 Charlotte-bronte Quotes By Michelle Cliff" description: "1 Charlotte-bronte quotes by Michelle Cliff. Plus more from Michelle Cliff and more Charlotte-bronte sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d8/michelle-cliff-42849_books_she-picked-up-the-book-beside-her-jane-e_1751357.jpg" --- > [“She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages bearing vague stains, fingered, smoothed. She opened the book to the place she left it when the taxicab…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/she-picked-up-the-book-beside-her-jane-eyre-used-bought-recently-in-a/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d8/michelle-cliff-42849_books_she-picked-up-the-book-beside-her-jane-e_1751357.jpg) ## Other authors on Charlotte-bronte - [Charlotte Brontë 18 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charlotte-bronte-2/charlotte-bronte/) ## More by Michelle Cliff > [“In America: each year the day before school after summer vacation I sat on my bed touching my notebooks, pencils, ruler-holding the stern and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/in-america-each-year-the-day-before-school-after-summer-vacation-i/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) > [“She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages bearing vague…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/she-picked-up-the-book-beside-her-jane-eyre-used-bought-recently-in-a/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) > [To garden is a solitary act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/to-garden-is-a-solitary-act/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) > [Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/who-can-say-how-many-lives-have-been-saved-by-books/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) > [Our lives are written in disappearing ink.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/our-lives-are-written-in-disappearing-ink/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) > [“To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power - pride, arrogance, control. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/to-cope-with-hurt-and-control-my-fears-i-grew-a-thick-skin-oh-the/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) > [“A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives- our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/a-theory-in-the-flesh-means-one-where-the-physical-realities-of-our-2/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) > [Captive people have a need for song.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/captive-people-have-a-need-for-song/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) > [“One of the effects of indoctrination, of passing into the anglo-centrism of British West Indian culture, is that you believe absolutely in the hegemony…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/one-of-the-effects-of-indoctrination-of-passing-into-the-anglo/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) > [“It was never a question of passing. It was a question of hiding. Behind Black and white perceptions of who we were -- who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-cliff/it-was-never-a-question-of-passing-it-was-a-question-of-hiding-behind/) [Michelle Cliff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-cliff/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charlotte-bronte-2/michelle-cliff/#itemlist", "name": "1 Charlotte-bronte Quotes By Michelle Cliff", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages bearing vague stains, fingered, smoothed. She opened the book to the place she left it when the taxicab pulled up. “My daughter, flee temptation.” “Mother, I will,” Jane responded, as the moon turned to woman. The fiction had tricked her. 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