Jane Eyre

"I would endure anything to be united to you."

"My name is Jane Eyre, and I believe myself to be honest."

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

"Reader, I married him."

"I am certain I cannot be mistaken when I say that Mr. Rochester is a man of principle."

"I am my mother's child, and her name was Eyre."

"What you feel now is more than gratitude and affection combined."

"I cannot turn, nor retrace my steps: I am bound."

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can love."

"I have as much reason to fear you as you have to fear me."

"Anybody may blame me who likes."

"I am a coward with respect to this one thing."

"My fortune is good; my prospects promising. What can I want besides?"

"I would not alter the past if I could, nor would I alter the future by a hair's breadth."

"I feel as if I were living a fairy tale."

"It is my fashion to dictate, and yours to receive."

"I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you."

"I am just as capable of being your equal as I am of not being your equal."

"Whatever I do, whether civilised or savage, I do it to extremes."

"I must keep to my line. It is right that I should do so."

"My heart is not of ice, and it is not of stone."

"I would not change you unless I changed myself, and the very winds and waters of the earth cannot change you."

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

"I am glad you are of a communicative disposition, for it has hitherto been my misfortune to have conversed with few people."

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

"I have seen something that marks the nature of all life."

"Better to seek the truth than to remain in pleasant ignorance."

"I am no longer a slave to my circumstances."