Gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.
("Jane Eyre")
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Reader, I married him.Charlotte Brontë
Life and marriage I have known,
Things once deemed so bright;
Now, how utterly is flown
Every ray of light!
Charlotte Bronte
Alas! never had I loved him so well!
Charlotte Bronte
My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter.
Charlotte Bronte
I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.
Charlotte Bronte
Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.
Charlotte Bronte
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