Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEJane Eyre “I desired more…than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn’t help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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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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For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
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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 madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children’s mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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You transfix me quite.
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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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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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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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