jane eyre Flashcards
“You are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen’s children like us”
“Wicked and cruel boy!” I said. “You are like a murderer — you are like a slave-driver — you are like the Roman emperors!”
“It was in her nature to wound me cruelly.”
“I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there
“You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. “
“We feasted that evening as on nectar and ambrosia;
“She had stood me in the stead of mother,”
“I felt, at times, as if he were my relation, rather than my master,”
“My daughter, flee temptation.”
“Mother, I will.”
“This was wealth indeed!—wealth to the heart!—a mine of pure genial affections. This was a blessing, bright, vivid, and exhilarating!”
“His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”
“He made me love him without looking at me.”
“So happy, so gratified, did I become with this new interest added to life, that I ceased to pine after kindred
“I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not…strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.
“I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking, – a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.”
“He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for his creature of whom I had made an idol.”
“After which he murmured, “It will atone – it will atone.”
“The trunk, split down the center, gasped ghastly. The cloven halves were not broken from each other, for the firm base and strong roots kept them unsundered below; though the community of vitality was destroyed”
“It shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it; it could not seek Mr. Rochester’s arms – it could not derive warmth from his breast.”
“Reader, I married him.”
“Delightful consciousness! It brought to life and light my whole nature; in his presence I thoroughly lived, and he lived in mine.”
“I recognized his decisive nose, more remarkable for character than beauty, his full nostrils, denoting, I thought, choler; his grim mouth, chin, and jaw—yes, all three were very grim, and no mistake”
“He was young – perhaps from twenty-eight to thirty – tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline; quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin”
“I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart… kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant and courageous, very gentle, and very heroic: cease to mistrust yourself - I can trust you unreservedly”
“He is good and great, but severe; and, for me, cold as an iceberg.”
“You – you strange, you almost unearthly thing! – I love as my own flesh. You – poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are – I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
“God and nature intended you for a missionary’s wife. It is not personal but mental endowments they have given you; you are formed for labor, not love. A missionary’s wife you must—shall be. You shall be mine; I claim you—not for my pleasure, but for my Sovereign’s service.”
“Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still.”
“Refuse to be my wife, and you limit yourself forever to a track of selfish ease and barren obscurity.”
