He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
("Jane Eyre")
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Whence, then, this vain and barren dreamingOf death, and dubious life to come?
Charlotte Bronte
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
Charlotte Bronte
I think that good reads is a good website to check out what book you want to read. Jane Eyre is a very sad book and poignant. It's really sad because she's an orphan and nobody wants her. A woman finds out that she is an orphan and adopts her. Jane treats her as if that were here mother and they get along very beautifully at the end.
Charlotte Bronte
And I am a hard woman, -impossible to put off.
Charlotte Bronte
Probably, if I had lately left a good home and kind parents, this would have been the hour when I should most keenly have regretted the separation: that wind would then have saddened my heart; this obscure chaos would have disturbed my peace: as it was I derived from both a strange excitement, and reckless and feverish, I wished the wind to howl more wildly, the gloom to deepen to darkness, and the confusion to rise to clamour.
Charlotte Bronte
Knowledge, which, if o'er life it beamed,
Served but to prove it void of worth?
Charlotte Bronte
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