Jane Eyre
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- Picture of passion
- With her darlings about her [...] perfectly happy.
- Me dispensed from joining the group.
- My heart beat thick, my head grew hot;... I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down; I uttered a wild, involuntary cry"
- - a black pillar!... standing erect on the rug: the grim face at the top like a carved mas,
- You are deceitful
- I desired liberty, for liberty I gasped; for Liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing
- A very chill and vault-like air pervaded the stairs and gallery; suggesting a cheerless idea of space and solitude
- Women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restating, too absurd a stagnation, precisely as men would
- This was a demonic laugh - low, suppressed, and deep -
- I was tossed in a buoyant but unique sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy...- a sense would resist delirium; judgement would warn passion"
- My pulse stopped: my heart stood still... that fearful shriek
- I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;... we stood at God's feet, equal.
- Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!
- Struck by lightning in the night, and half of it split away.
- Try and keep Mr Rochester at a distance: distrusts yourself as well as him.
- And then you won't know me, Sir: and I shall not be you're Jane Eyre any longer, but an ape in a harlequinn's jacket.
- He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for this creature: of whom I had made an Idol.
- A discoloured face, a savage face, vampire, her lurid visage flamed over mine, insensible from terror.
- The maniac bellowed;... I recognized well that purple face - those bloated features.
- I wrestled with my own resolution;... Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat;... With that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.
- I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless the more unsubstained I am, the more I will respect myself.
- Some of the best people that have ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.
- Human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you.
- I felt degraded. I doubted I had taken a step which sank instead of raising me in the scale of social existence.
- If I offered my heart, I believe you would accept it. But that heart is already laid on a sacred altar: the fire is arranged around it.
- Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolves ice. - Jane
- I scorn your idea of love
- "You are formed for labour not for love" "you shall be mine, I claim you."
- Forced to keep the fore of my nature continually low. to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital.
- If I were to marry you, you would kill me. You are killing me now.
- "Jane! Jane! Jane! [...] wait for me! Oh I will come! I flew to the door and looked into the passage. It was dark. I ran into the garden: it was void."