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I am not an angel, I asserted; and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

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

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

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

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