I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.
("Jane Eyre")
More Quotes from Charlotte Bronte:
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.Charlotte Bronte
The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
Charlotte Bronte
Good-night, Dr. John you are good, you are beautiful but you are not mine. Good-night, and God bless you
Charlotte Brontë
To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.
Charlotte Bronte
You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
Charlotte Bronte
It can never be, sir; it does not sound likely. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: To imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale - a day-dream.
Charlotte Bronte
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