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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

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Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts a...more

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Then, learn from me not to judge by appearances: I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and never keep, things in order; I am careles...more

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I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage...more

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celesti...more

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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; yo...more

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Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older old...more

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Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me...more

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his wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on

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What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same cat...more

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St. John,” I said, “I think you are al­most wicked to talk so. I am dis­posed to be as con­tent as a queen, and you try to stir me up to rest­less­nes...more

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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

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Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts, a...more

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Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has ru...more

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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 nev...more