Jane Eyre

"Justice is a virtue I have always revered."

"I am not bound to make the world happy."

"Suffering has taught me wisdom."

"I had rather be anything than vain."

"I feel as if I could turn and devote my life to you."

"I have banished the shade and hope."

"My spirit was moved to exultation."

"I would not change this moment for all the treasures of India."

"I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals."

"I felt desolate and abandoned."

"I am not an easy person to influence."

"I felt as if an awful charm was framing round and gathering over me."

"Wish your own welfare in heart—foremost."

"I cannot turn, nor retrace one step; I am bound to an awful strait."

"I have as much soul as I have heart. Heart and soul have been so wrung."

"No mockery in this world sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to relish a tale of spiritual consolation."

"I can endure it. I have endured worse trials."

"I will not agree with you if you are wrong."

"Despair I felt at times, but never absolute despair."

"I would not creep after him like a spaniel."

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

"I must keep in good health, and not pine."

"My master had forbidden me to confide in Mrs. Fairfax, and I did not obey him."

"Sorrow can be borne! Look at me—I have borne a heavy share."

"I can live alone, if self-respect and circumstances require me to do so."

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation."

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

"I would far rather be a great man's mistress than a little man's wife."

"Whatever I do, I do it for myself."

"I felt as though I had been born to him, or he to me."