Jane Eyre

"I shall remember you for years, with all your kind hospitality."

"I would rather work hard and do good than lead a life of indolence."

"The world may not know me, but I know myself."

"I am standing in the presence of my past."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."

"One does as one is accustomed to do."

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

"Depend on it, you are sane because you are strong."

"I am no angel, and I will not pretend to be one."

"Do you think I am an automaton? A machine without feelings?"

"I would not change for all your estates!"

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

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

"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."

"I am not deceitful; if I were, I should say I love you."

"All within me is silent and still."

"I have crossed oceans of feeling unexamined."

"There is a power I feel which crushes my worth."

"I am sustained by a conviction of the truth of my position."

"Every atom of your flesh is dear to me."

"When I lost sight of him I lost hope."

"I must guard against my own weakness."

"Mystery breathes round this mansion."

"Suffering has strengthened and refined me."

"I am better than I was last year; I am improving."

"My spirit addresses your spirit."

"I am not talking to you now from curiosity, but from devotion."

"I could not turn, nor retrace one step."