“To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“In every person of whatever station look not for things to criticize, but for something you adore in your Creator.”
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“You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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