Jane Eyre

"I need not sell my soul to buy bliss."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."

"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!"

"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh."

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by the heart you value."

"I would rather be a slave and owe nothing, than not slave and owe my soul to you."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."

"I felt as if I had been living a grand secret. My pulse stopped: my heart stood still."

"Life is too short to nurse animosity."

"I have as much soul as you,—more than you will ever have!"

"I am no mortal, but a spirit; I feel in your presence a strange tranquility."

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."

"I would not change for all the treasures of the world."

"I felt as though I had been living in darkness and had suddenly found light."

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel."

"I am glad you are no relation of mine."

"You are human and fallible."

"I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals."

"Hereafter I trust I shall get on."

"I felt as if I was being buried alive beneath expectations."

"Reader, I married him."

"Justice! I swear I will have justice."

"I scorn your pretended coldness—I scorn you when you are cold."

"My heart was full of gratitude and wonder."

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more should I respect myself."

"There is no one bound to confess secrets but to God."

"I am sustained and soothed by remembrance of divine justice."

"Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine."

"I have something in my brain and heart, after all."