“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Sir, your wife is living; that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“My task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him. My future husband was becoming to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The second Mrs. Helstone, inversing the natural order of insect existence, would have fluttered through the honeymoon a bright, admired butterfly, and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Shall I?” I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still severity;… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It is not saying too much; I know what I feel, and how averse are my inclinations to the bare thought of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“-Da, spuse el, dupa ce ma privi cateva clipe, nu se poate nega, - e intr-adevar un chip care exprima hotararea-, e… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Are you in earnest? - Do you truly love me? - Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?' 'I do;… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon, and that is all. [...] Can I receive from him the bridal… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The house cleared, I shut myself in, fastened the bolt that none might intrude, and proceeded—not to weep, not to mourn, I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. — Charlotte Bronte 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“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 Image
