Alexandra

“You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.”
― Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre

“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to be natural, or wish to imitate: were I obliged to copy these characters, I would simply -- not write at all. Were I obliged to copy any former novelist, even the greatest, even Scott, in anything , I would not write -- Unless I have something of my own to say, and a way of my own to say it in, I have no business to publish; unless I can look beyond the greatest Masters, and study Nature herself, I have no right to paint; unless I can have the courage to use the language of Truth in preference to the jargon of Conventionality, I ought to be silent.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Sunt lucruri pe care le poţi avea doar dacă stai departe de ele. Făcând greşeala să le cauţi, le pierzi.”
― Octavian Paler