Mariah

“People who are only in each other's company for amusement never really like each other so well, or esteem each other so highly, as those who work together, and perhaps suffer together.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“The antipathy which had sprung up between myself and my employer striking deeper root and spreading denser shade daily, excluded me from every glimpse of the sunshine of life; and I began to feel like a plant growing in humid darkness out of the slimy walls of a well.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“There is something flattering to a man's strength, something consonant to his honourable pride, in the idea of becoming the providence of what he loves — feeding and clothing it, as God does the lilies of the field.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“Reason was my physician. She began by proving that the prize I had missed was of little value.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor