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“I thought of the organ booming in the chapel and of the shut doors of the library; and I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and of the poverty and insecurity of the other…”

“I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me- you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twinning the soft, silken skein around my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced- conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express, the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win…”

“Tell me now fairy as you are, can’t you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort to make me handsome man?”
“It would be past the power of magic, sir, and, in thought, I added ‘a loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough, or rather, you’re sternness has a power beyond beauty.’”

“… my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face: I could not keep their lids under control: they would rise and the irids would fix on him. I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,- a precious yet poignant pleasure, pure gold, with a steely point of agony….

“Miss Eyre: remorse is the poison of life.” “Repentance is said to be its cure, sir.”

“Why then should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness- to glory?”

“‘Come, Miss Jane, don’t cry!,’ said Bessie, as she finished, she might as well have said with the fire ‘don’t burn!’, but how could you divide the morbid suffering to which I was pray?”

"لطالما كنتِ الأقرب إلى قلبي."

"‏لا تعطيك الحياة فرصة كل ما أردت أنت ذلك، هنالك فرصٌ تصنعها أنت، لا الحياة. هناك أيضًا فرصٌ نخوضها و في خضمِ عيشنا في أجوائها، لا نكون واعينَ بأننا على مركب هذهِ الفرصة إلا بعدَ الغرق."

‏"الأشخاص يتشابهون في نقطة ما مهما اختلف مقدار سوئهم، كعرب الساعات مع الدقائق حين يتطابق الطرفان بعد ابتعادهما. نختلف في كوننا جيدين أو لا بمقدارٍ متفاوتٍ من شخص إلى آخر ولكننا في بعض الحالات… نتشابهه بطريقة لا ندركها نحن."

“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possession and property, but this fear evaporates when we understand, there are life stories, and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”

“If you start up by promising what you don’t even have yet, you will lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

“I’ve come to tell you straight out that even though you’re going to be unhappy, you must always remember that your son now loves you more than himself, that all the things you’ve thought about me, that I’m cruel and I don’t love you, all those things are false and I’ll never stop loving you…”

‘And then it was, Sonya, that I understood,’ he went on ecstatically, ‘that power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up….’

Really curious to how this book is going to end.

“The crimes of these people are, of course related and multifarious; for the most part that they are demanding, in highly varied forms, is a destruction of the present reality in the name of one that is better.”

“I’ll go so far as to say they’re not only you or I, but even a hundred, desperate man wouldn’t be able to rely on his powers. And one doesn’t have to look far for an example.”