“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“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.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“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.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'
- Jane Eyre”
― Jane Eyre
- Jane Eyre”
― Jane Eyre
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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