Clockwork princess Quote by Cassandra Clare

“Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre," Tessa pointed out. "No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her…

— Cassandra Clare

“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. I would give everything to ensure the novel's survival.”

— Jasper Fforde

“Courtship? Had I said courtship ? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?”

— Terri Farley

“Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women…

— Barbara Pym

“Jane Eyre may be an orphan, homely, battered, alone and abandoned, but she is not, never has been and never will be a big…

— Fanny Britt

“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…

— Michelle Cliff

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

— David Nicholls

“The loudness of tone in Jane Eyre is undoubtedly effective in communicating tension and frustration, but the style does of course have its related…

— Ian Gregor

“Well, they got married. No one pulled a Jane Eyre...”

— Charlaine Harris

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

— Jasper Fforde

But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least in the…

— Virginia Woolf