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Jane Eyre
- “I am no bird; and no net
ensnares me: I am a free human
being with an independent will;
which I now exert to leave you.”
- “Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without
feelings?"
- "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain,
and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think
wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as
much heart! And if God had gifted me with some
beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as
hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave
you."
- "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!”
- "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!”
- “I have for the first time found what I can truly
love–I have found you. You are my
sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am
bound to you with a strong attachment. I think
you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn
passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you,
draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap
my existence about you–and, kindling in pure,
powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
- “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.”
- “I had not intended to love him; the reader
knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my
soul the germs of love there detected; and
now, at the first renewed view of him, they
spontaneously revived, great and strong! He
made me love him without looking at me.”
- “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and
sickness it would still be dear.”
- “Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak
and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to
bear.”
- “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with
tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if
they cannot find it.”
- “Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back
again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.”
- “You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.”
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