Jane Eyre

"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."

"You are human and fallible."

"I would scorn such chaste delay—I would scorn you if you could."

"I am glad you are no relation of mine."

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel."

"I felt as though I had been living in darkness and had suddenly found light."

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

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."

"I am no mortal, but a spirit; I feel in your presence a strange tranquility."

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

"I have as much soul as you,—more than you will ever have!"

"I am thinking of another thing while you are talking and watching me."

"You examine me, Miss Eyre. Do you see anything you like?"

"I would far rather be excommunicated than live under your thumb."

"Life is too short to nurse animosity."

"I felt as if I had been living a grand secret. My pulse stopped: my heart stood still."

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

"I would rather be a slave and owe nothing, than not slave and owe my soul to you."

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by the heart you value."

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

"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!"

"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 need not sell my soul to buy bliss."

"What does it matter to me how many years ago she was born?"

"I would rather die than be your mistress."

"I am no bird; I am not caught in a snare. I am a free human being with an independent will."

"Whatever I do, if it is at all virtuous, I will strive to the last gasp to complete it."

"There is nothing I fear so much as idleness."

"Rules and systems are all very well for society, but we cannot live by them."