Books Quote by Cate Campbell Beatty

“The one thing that Jane’s death should teach us is that life is precious and every day is a gift that we should treasure.”

— Philippa Gregory

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird;…

— Charlotte Bronte

“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

“My subconscious rolls her eyes at me in despair and goes back to reading her dog-eared copy of Jane Eyre.”

— E.L. James

“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

“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

“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

“The words of Jane Eyre skipped through my mind. How deceiving they were. No wonder the council had outlawed books. Stories enabled you to…

— Tiffany Truitt

“She wrote me a letter (Joan,1941) asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as…

— Richard P. Feynman

“Sometimes I wondered if I had made Joan up. Other times I wondered if she would continue to pop in at every crisis of…

— Sylvia Plath

“He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He…

— Orson Scott Card