Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
More Quotes from Charlotte Bronte:
The very wildness of my sorrowTells me I yet have innate force;
My track of life has been too narrow,
Effort shall trace a broader course.
Charlotte Bronte
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte
One feelingturned to utter anguish,
Is not my being's only aim;
When, lorn and loveless, life will languish,
But courage can revive the flame.
Charlotte Bronte
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