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Oh my, Rochester ?!!

St John and Mr Rochester are quite literally polar opposite’s ?!!

"Don't imagine such hard things. Fancy me yielding and melting, as I am doing: human love rising like a freshly opened fountain in my mind and overflowing with sweet inundation all the field I have so carefully and with such labour prepared - so assiduously sown with the seeds of good intentions, of self-denying plans…”

Jane is so inspirational and I love that she has self-respect for herself ?!!

“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 agonized 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.”

“She seemed the emblem of my past life; and here I was now to array myself to meet the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day.”

“I half ventured to hope that he would, even after his marriage, keep us together somewhere under the shelter of his protection, and not quite exiled from the sunshine of his presence.”