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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

Charlotte Bronte
Morning, Spring, Night
Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.

Charlotte Bronte
Pain, Past, Yesterday

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Charlotte Bronte
Sister, World, Affection

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Charlotte Bronte
Selfish, Laughing, Soul
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.354, Penguin

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

Charlotte Bronte
Men, Judging, Judge Me
Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Charlotte Bronte
May, Cost, Lovers
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.320, ReadHowYouWant.com

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

Charlotte Bronte
Judging, Judge Me, Critics

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

Charlotte Bronte
Kindness, Cutting, Clouds
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.475, The Floating Press

You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

Charlotte Bronte
Thinking, Race, Two
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.194, Penguin

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

Charlotte Bronte
Lying, Heart, Sadness
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.319, ReadHowYouWant.com

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

Charlotte Bronte
Heart, Fate, Forever
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.361, Penguin

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

Charlotte Bronte
Prayer, Wind, Liberty
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

Charlotte Bronte
Crush, Revenge, Home
Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Charlotte Bronte
Husband, Things I Love, Flesh
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

Charlotte Bronte
Disappointment, Night, Land
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

Charlotte Bronte
Hate, Mean, Matter
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

Charlotte Bronte
Heart, Thinking, Guests
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.115, Penguin

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Charlotte Bronte
Love, Romantic, Pain
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.135, ReadHowYouWant.com

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Charlotte Bronte
Flattery, Rudeness, Deals
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.215, Penguin

But this I know; 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. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.

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

I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

Charlotte Bronte
Regret, Father, Grieving
Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Partner: Jane Eyre & Anna Karenina”, p.50, Random House

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

Charlotte Bronte
War, Destiny, Life Is
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.84, ReadHowYouWant.com

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

Charlotte Bronte
Struggle, Independent, Bird
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

Charlotte Bronte
Love, Integrity, Women
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.

Charlotte Bronte
Country, Flower, Book

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