Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEI am no bird and no net ensnares me
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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You transfix me quite.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.
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No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
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After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you.
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal–as we are!
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Adversity is a good school.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.
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All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.
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I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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