"Jane Eyre" Quotes

Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings?

You are my sympathy—my better self—my good angel.

Reader, I married him.

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education.

I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh:—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

I can live alone, if self-respect and circumstances require me so to do.