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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

Charlotte Bronte
I Love You, Beauty, Love You
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.212, Penguin

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

Charlotte Bronte
Nature, Morning, Rain
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.54, The Floating Press

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

Charlotte Bronte
Good Night, Lips, Left
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.150, Penguin

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

Charlotte Bronte
Devil, Daydreaming, Delusion

Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

Charlotte Bronte
Whispering, Fairy, Said
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

Charlotte Bronte
Heartbreak, Prayer, Integrity
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.262, Penguin

He is not to them what he is to me.

Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

Charlotte Bronte
Years, England, Clergy
Shirley ch. 1 (1849)

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.

Charlotte Bronte
Morning, Prodigious, Amount
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.49, Xist Publishing

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte
Trying, Ears, Violence
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.247, Penguin

...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.

Charlotte Bronte
Departure, Strikes, Torn
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.207, Penguin

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Charlotte Bronte
Talking, Alarms, May
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

Charlotte Bronte
Believe, Silence, Waiting
"Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Jane (Ch. 28), October 16, 1847.

Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.

Charlotte Bronte
Heart, Insults You, Necks
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.216, Penguin

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.

Charlotte Bronte
Heart, Hands, Independence
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.314, ReadHowYouWant.com

I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

Charlotte Bronte
Somewhere Under, Feelings, Ribs

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

Charlotte Bronte
Hate, Lasts, Said
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.197, Penguin

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

Charlotte Bronte
Degradation, Charity, Hunger
Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.270, Everyman's Library

I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte
Thinking, Forever, Breathe
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

Charlotte Bronte
Sympathy, Hate, Mad
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.246, Penguin

The word book acted as a transient stimulus

Charlotte Bronte
Book, Stimulus, Transient
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

There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

Charlotte Bronte
Sorrow, Vision, Arms

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

Charlotte Bronte
Reason, Should, Strikes
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

Charlotte Bronte
Kindness, Home, Rochester
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, Penguin

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

Charlotte Bronte
Mean, Vision, Stones
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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