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Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in

Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won.

Charlotte Bronte
Heart, Eye, Hands
Charlotte Bronte (2014). “Jane Eyre: Englische Originalausgabe”, p.199, Edition Lempertz

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

Charlotte Bronte
Saws, Firsts, Recognise

Everyone else is just cocktails.

Charlotte Bronte
Cocktails

Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

Charlotte Bronte
Austin, Helping, Sensible

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

Charlotte Bronte
Pain, Helping, Sometimes
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

What the deuce is to do now?

Charlotte Bronte
Deuces
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.95, Penguin

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

Charlotte Bronte
Should, Acknowledge, Religious Faith
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.41, Xist Publishing

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte
Trust Myself, Jane

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

Charlotte Bronte
Eye, Pride, Desire
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.235, Penguin

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Charlotte Bronte
Running, Choices, Promise
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

Charlotte Bronte
Past, Dwell On The Past, Brighter
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

Charlotte Bronte
Girl, Wise, Caring
"Villette".

Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

Charlotte Bronte
Prayer, Sacrifice, Expectations
"Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs".

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

Charlotte Bronte
Fate, Forget You, Strive
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

Charlotte Bronte
Pope, Infallibility, Boast
Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.842, Everyman's Library

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charlotte Bronte
Stranger, Reason, Absurd

you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more than I can say; but I’ll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I’ll keep you from the edge of the gulf too; and, moreover, maintain by its pungent aid that distance between you and myself most conducive to our real mutual advantage.

Charlotte Bronte
I Like You, Real, Distance
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.224, Penguin

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

Charlotte Bronte
Patience, Smart, Evil
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.49, Penguin

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

Charlotte Bronte
Dying, Famous Last Words, Has Beens
Joyce Milton, Charlotte Bronte (1984). “Jane Eyre”, p.9, Barron's Educational Series

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Charlotte Bronte
God, Nature, Night
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.264, Penguin

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Charlotte Bronte
Nerves, Red, Rooms
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte
Creativity, Creative, Masters
Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.19

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Charlotte Bronte
Soul, Suffering, Body

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.

Charlotte Bronte
Silly, Fate, Would Be
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

Charlotte Bronte
Believe, Optimistic, Heart
Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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