Jane Eyre

"Hope, as a fresh leaf, opens before me."

"I never can bear to be laughed at."

"Reason remains, and I cling to reason."

"I must be careful of my actions with him."

"I would not have her heart broken."

"I felt as though I had been living a waking dream."

"Forgiveness may be divine, but never, in my opinion, at the expense of justice."

"I am resolved to act with prudence and be calm."

"To live without some object of love is to cease to live."

"One does as much harm by injuring self-respect as by anything else."

"I would not be you; not for all the world."

"Whatever I do, I do with all my heart."

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

"I felt as if I had been buried under an avalanche and now the weight was lifted."

"I would consent to wear a grating shirt, to lie on a bed of nails, to be bound hand and foot in a dungeon, if it could thereby secure my soul's peace."

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"I would not exchange this one little English heart for all the treasures of Christendom."

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

"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 never afraid of what I know."

"I have found what I wanted—a new servitude!"

"Knowledge and independence are the principal objects of my wishes."

"I felt as if I had been a slave unfairly bound."

"My dreams were all dark clouds and tempests."

"I am no bird; no net can ensnare me: I am a free human being."

"I would risk the shot to prove I could do better than you."