Charlotte Brontë

Conventionality is not morality. - Charlotte Brontë

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil --
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"

"Are you a young lady?"

"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will
be treated."

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has
remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me
strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto."
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“Your will shall decide your destiny.”

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

"It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___"
"Well?"
"From you, sir"
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.”

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day."

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened
to me, I entered bliss.”

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must
love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.”

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.”
― Charlotte Brontë

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.”

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“And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.”

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say
- more than words had power to express."

- Jane Eyre”

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not,
match the expectation.”
― Charlotte Brontë

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
― Charlotte Brontë

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.”

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he
had ceased to notice me.”
― Charlotte Brontë

[Charlotte Brontë @_AuthorBronte]

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels
but yourself,
than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will
extend to all
connected with you.”