Brandon

“he began, and fell right into the oldest conviction in the world - that the girl you are in love with can’t possibly be anything but true and honest.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“To you she was because you built her. I don’t think you ever saw her—only your own creation.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal,—as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre