“I had wakened the glow: his features beamed. 'Oh, you are indeed there, my sky-lark!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“...his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Well has Solomon said--'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.' I would not… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she… — Charlotte Brontë Brontë Copy Share Image
“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Just like in Jane Eyre, the moral of the story would be 'never forget that you're nothing but a sad sausage.” — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“He saw nature - he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honey-moon, and then she would come and see me.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre," Tessa pointed out. "No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You examine me, Miss Eyre", said he. "Do you think me handsome?" I should have deliberated, have replied to this question by… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“The case is very plain before me. In leaving England, I should leave a loved but empty land — Mr. Rochester is… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. Floating on… — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Copy Share Image
“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Reader, I married him. It turned out the sounds I heard coming from the attic weren't the screams of Mr Rochester's mad… — Francine Prose 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
“I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. I recalled the voice… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Now, I've another errand for you,' said my untiring master; "you must away to my room again. What a mercy you are… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Ree is his. Is his, is devoted to him, is aggravatingly tender and possessively passionate and wrapped up in him in a… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
“How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is… — Wirt Gerrare Copy Share Image
“Tessa exploded "I am not asking you to maul me in the Whispering Gallery! By the Angel, Will, would you stop being… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“Unjust! - unjust!' said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power; and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“So Penn just reads, and he just reads for a good long time. By the time he has come to the point… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
“Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
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