JUST QUOTES

• "I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say that I love you; but I declare I do not love you."
• "I preferred her to anyone else at Gateshead Hall."
• "Take her away to the red room and lock her in there."
• Red Room:

  -"massive pillars of mahogany"

  -"seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars"
• "You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg."
• "I shall remember how you thrust me- roughly and violently thrust me back into the red-room... though I was in agony.... And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me."
• Jane refers to herself as "a strange child she could not love" in Mrs Reed's perspective
• "It was in this chamber that he breathes his last breath" --> "it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion"
• "I know that, had I been a saguine... handsome... child, though equally dependent and friendless, Mrs Reed would have endured my presence more complacently." --> calls herself "poor, obscure, plain and little" to Rochester
• "I was a discord in Gateshead Hall; I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed, or her children"
• "diease had thus become an inhabitant at Lowood, and death its frequent visitor"
• "Raw and chill was the winter morning: my teeth chattered as I hastened down the drive"
• "During these eight years my life was uniform, but not unhappy"

  "I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a silent prayer"
• "He bullied and punished me... every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh on my bones shrunk when he came near"

  "the servants did not like to offend their young master... and Mrs Reed was blind and deaf on the subject"
• "You are like a murderer- you are like slave-driver- you are like the Roman emperors"
• "He is a good and a great man, but he forgets, pitilessly, the feelings and claims of little people, in pursuing his own large views"
• "What a great nose! And what a mouth! And what large prominent teeth!"
• "You shall see what sort of a being I was tricked into espousing, and judge whether or not I had a right to break the compact"
• "I don't think sir, you have the right to command me."
• "I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself"
• "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!"
• "I ask you to pass through life at my side- to be my second self, and best earthly companion"
• "Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary"
• "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel"
• "I am no bird, and no net ensnares me"
• "I am a free human being with an independent will."
• "You had this morning a breakfast which you could not eat; you must be hungry. I have ordered a lunch of bread and cheese shall be served to all."
• "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
• "He is not of their kind, I believe he is of mine."
• "Composed, though grave, she stood"
• "She lifted her eyes... a matyr, a hero."
• "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
• "you are too impulsive, too vehement"
• "I was so hurt by her coldness and scepticism, that the tears rose to my eyes."
• "she looked at me bewildered"
• "She has stood in me the seed of a mother, governess and latterly companion,"
• "Not a tear rose to Burn's eyes"
• "revenge never worries my heart"
• "It is far better to endure patiently a smart... than to commit a hasty action"
• "By dying young I shall escape great sufferings... I have faith; I am going to God"