BOOK STARTERS VOL.30 JANE EYRE CHARLOTTE BRONTË
❛ I am no bird, no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will. ❜
❛ I would always rather be happy than dignified. ❜
❛ Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ❜
❛ I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ❜
❛ I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ❜
❛ You are my sympathy, my better self — I am bound to you. ❜
❛ I have, for the first time, found what I can truly love. I have found you. ❜
❛ And what is hell? Can you tell me that? ❜
❛ I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die. I will be myself. ❜
❛ Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own, in pain and sickness it would still be dear. ❜
❛ He made me love him without looking at me. ❜
❛ Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. ❜
❛ All my heart is yours, it belongs to you. And with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. ❜
❛ I must have you. The world may laugh – may call me absurd, selfish – but it does not signify. My very soul demands you, it will either be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame. ❜
❛ Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. ❜
❛ You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. ❜
❛ To attack the first is not to assail the last. ❜
❛ Conventionality is not morality. ❜
❛ It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer. ❜
❛ I know I must conceal my sentiments — I must smother hope. ❜
❛ Who in the world cares for you? Who will be injured by what you do? ❜
❛ Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. ❜
❛ I will never again come to your side. I am torn away now, and cannot return. ❜
❛ Your will shall decide your destiny. ❜
❛ I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide. ❜
❛ Make my happiness and I will make yours. ❜
❛ What necessity is there to dwell on the past, when the present is so much surer, the future so much brighter? ❜
❛ I envy you, your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. ❜
❛ I never meant to wound you. Will you ever forgive me? ❜
❛ Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. ❜
