Quotes Flashcards
every nerve I have is unstrung
for a moment I am beyond my own mastery’
god and nature intended you
for a missionary’s wife…formed for labour, not for love’
it is my spirit
which addresses your spirit…equal, as we are’
It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding
its riven chords…impotent as a bird with both wings broken
movements were fettered, and my voice still
died away inarticulate; while you, I felt, withdrew farther and farther every moment’
you are no ruin, sir – no lighting – struck tree: you are green and vigorous.
Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop’
– forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low
to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame
‘a splendid midsummer shone
over England…suns so radiant as were seen in long succession’
‘a vivid, restless, resolute captive
were it but free, it would soar cloud high’
‘cold, solitary girl again
prospects were desolate’
‘every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own
in pain and sickness it would still be clear…if you raved, my arms would confine you…in your quiet moments you should have no watcher and no nurse but me’
‘frosts of winter had ceased;
its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated’
‘he stood between me and every thought of religion
as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun’
‘I described to him how brilliantly green they were;
how the flowers and hedges looked refreshed; how sparklingly blue was the sky’
‘I desired liberty; for
liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’
‘I had not intended to love him…fought
hard to extirpate the germs of love there detected…first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, green and strong!’
‘I will be your neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper
. I find you lonely: I will be your companion – to read to you, to walk with you, to sit with you, to wait on you, to be eyes and hands to you’
‘if others don’t love me, I would rather
die than live…willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken’
‘of an existence whose very privileges
of security and ease I was becoming incapable of appreciating’
‘put on my clothes by the light
of a half – moon just setting’
‘rock standing up alone
in a sea of billow…broken boat stranded’
‘second self
and my best earthly companion’
‘string somewhere underneath my left ribs, tightly and inextricably
knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame…cord of communion will be snapped…take to bleeding inwardly’
‘there was nothing to cool or banish
love in these circumstances, though much to create despair’
‘they are making hay, too, in Thornfield meadows
how full the hedges are of roses…passed a tall brier, shooting leafy and flowery branches across the stile’
‘to me, he was in reality become no longer flesh
, but marble; his eye was a cold, bright, blue gem; his tongue a speaking instrument – nothing more’
‘while I love Rosamond Oliver so wildly – with all
the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, and fascinating…not make me a good wife’
‘why was I always suffering, always
browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned’
