Quote by Charlotte Brontë Download Open image ““Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was—dead.”” — Charlotte Brontë ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I am not a terribly physical person. Helen wasn't either. We'd never hugged or even shaken hands, so it was odd to find myself rubbing her bare shoulder and then her back. It was, I though, like stroking some sort of sea creature, the flesh slick and fatty beneath my palms. In my memory, there was something on the stove,… — David Sedaris Copy Share
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“I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“...as he cannot sleep on Helen's side, which is where he has secretly arranged three of her embroidered pillows, and sleeps facing them, one… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Her body faded away so far, she almost lost her connection to it. Utter blackness enveloped her, shutting off all warmth. All light. All… — Candace L. Talmadge Copy Share Image
“She looked so cute wen she was apologizing that Helen couldn't even pick up a grudge, let alone carry one.” — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“but she still burns. she is on fire with need. burning that goes deeper than her skin, etched deeply, maybe in her soul, and… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“You don't feel dead to me." "That's all that matters," he said, turning his head to look at her. Worry darkened his eyes. "I… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.” — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
“He burned with the need to hug her. But since their reconciliation they’d kept each other at arm’s length, as if they were both… — Carrie Elks 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
