I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you. It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs... And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then Iâve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you,âyouâd forget me. Jane Eyre love breakup
You looked very much puzzled, Miss Eyre; and though you are not pretty any more than I am handsome, yet a puzzled air becomes you; besides, it is convenient, for it keeps those searching eyes of yours away from my physiognomy, and busies them with the worsted flowers of the rug; so puzzle on. Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre embarrassment Ironic Quotes
â Tell me now, fairy as you areâcanât you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort, to make me a handsome man? â It would be past the power of magic, sir; and, in thought, I added, "A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sternness has a power beyond beauty". Charlotte BrontĂ« Jane Eyre Edward Rochester Jane Eyre
â ... I have no wish to talk nonsense. â If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. Charlotte BrontĂ« Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Edward Rochester thoughts foolish things
Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasureâan inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not? Charlotte BrontĂ« Jane Eyre children memories
Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre law despair
A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe. Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will, you will elude the grasp like an essenceâyou will vanish ere I inhale your fragrance. Charlotte BrontĂ« Jane Eyre
You will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of lifeâs stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer currentâas I am now. Charlotte BrontĂ« Jane Eyre