“I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these,
on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out
the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows...”
― Persuasion
on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out
the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows...”
― Persuasion
“Give him a book, and he will read all day long.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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