Jane Eyre

"I would wish to be the nurse of your life, for all its hours and all its days."

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

"Do you agree that I am right?"

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

"You are getting prettier every day, Jane."

"I felt as if I had been magnetised into the direction of Mr. Rochester."

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

"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."

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

"I would rather be a slave in some strange land than remain calm and content here."

"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 of you!"

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."

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