Jane Eyre

"Tyranny is despicable in all its forms."

"I felt I had discovered a new continent in him."

"My sister's affection was my greatest treasure."

"I became hard and cold as marble."

"I felt a strange joy when she praised me."

"Sorrow was my companion and she did not abandon me."

"I was experiencing an ordeal: I felt as though I stood on the edge of a precipice."

"I am neither bird nor cage."

"You are diverting me from serious work by all this badinage."

"I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio."

"I would not be your English Arabella; I would not sit idle sewing contemplative beside a marble hearth."

"My fear was my weakness and my strength my courage."

"I would not change you unless I was to change myself, and we each vowed we would be exactly as we are now."

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

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

"I felt as if I had been living a mediocre existence, and suddenly I was alive."

"I would rather be a slave and owe nothing than not slave and owe everything."

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

"I am not an angel, and I will not pretend to be one."

"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 have as much soul as any.—I have as much heart as any."

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

"My dreams have all been sacrificed"

"I feel as if I could die with you"

"The more I know myself, the less I like myself"

"Do not underestimate the power of a woman's mind"

"I am resolute in maintaining my own principles"

"Progress has slain many a good man"

"I neither have nor wish to have wealth"

"My spirit was moved to tears"