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"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 really just said: "Yeah, Rochester is ugly, but he's my kinda ugly." She really was ahead of her time. Also I love how clingy and dramatic Rochester is being. He's so smitten, haha.

"I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking - a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless."