Jane Eyre

• "wicked and cruel boy, you are like a murderer - you are like a slave-driver - you are like the Roman emperors!"
• "Do you think I am an automaton, a machine without feeling"
• "Here is my equal [...] my little wife"
• "I believe in God and I try to please Him" - Helen
• "laws and principles are not for the time where there is no temptation: they are for moments such as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour"
• "Living, she had ever hated me - dying, she must hate me still" - About Mrs Reed
• "Make His word your rule and His conduct your example"
• "You think too much of the love of human beings"
• "I will keep the law given by God, sanctioned by man" - jane