Quotes

Question 1

every nerve I have is unstrung

Answer 1

for a moment I am beyond my own mastery’

Question 2

god and nature intended you

Answer 2

for a missionary’s wife…formed for labour, not for love’

Question 3

it is my spirit

Answer 3

which addresses your spirit…equal, as we are’

Question 4

It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding

Answer 4

its riven chords…impotent as a bird with both wings broken

Question 5

movements were fettered, and my voice still

Answer 5

died away inarticulate; while you, I felt, withdrew farther and farther every moment’

Question 6

you are no ruin, sir – no lighting – struck tree: you are green and vigorous.

Answer 6

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’

Question 7

– forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low

Answer 7

to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame

Question 8

‘a splendid midsummer shone

Answer 8

over England…suns so radiant as were seen in long succession’

Question 9

‘a vivid, restless, resolute captive

Answer 9

were it but free, it would soar cloud high’

Question 10

‘cold, solitary girl again

Answer 10

prospects were desolate’

Question 11

‘every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own

Answer 11

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’

Question 12

‘frosts of winter had ceased;

Answer 12

its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated’

Question 13

‘he stood between me and every thought of religion

Answer 13

as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun’

Question 14

‘I described to him how brilliantly green they were;

Answer 14

how the flowers and hedges looked refreshed; how sparklingly blue was the sky’

Question 15

‘I desired liberty; for

Answer 15

liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’

Question 16

‘I had not intended to love him…fought

Answer 16

hard to extirpate the germs of love there detected…first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, green and strong!’

Question 17

‘I will be your neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper

Answer 17

. 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’

Question 18

‘if others don’t love me, I would rather

Answer 18

die than live…willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken’

Question 19

‘of an existence whose very privileges

Answer 19

of security and ease I was becoming incapable of appreciating’

Question 20

‘put on my clothes by the light

Answer 20

of a half – moon just setting’

Question 21

‘rock standing up alone

Answer 21

in a sea of billow…broken boat stranded’

Question 22

‘second self

Answer 22

and my best earthly companion’

Question 23

‘string somewhere underneath my left ribs, tightly and inextricably

Answer 23

knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame…cord of communion will be snapped…take to bleeding inwardly’

Question 24

‘there was nothing to cool or banish

Answer 24

love in these circumstances, though much to create despair’

Question 25

‘they are making hay, too, in Thornfield meadows

Answer 25

how full the hedges are of roses…passed a tall brier, shooting leafy and flowery branches across the stile’

Question 26

‘to me, he was in reality become no longer flesh

Answer 26

, but marble; his eye was a cold, bright, blue gem; his tongue a speaking instrument – nothing more’

Question 27

‘while I love Rosamond Oliver so wildly – with all

Answer 27

the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, and fascinating…not make me a good wife’

Question 28

‘why was I always suffering, always

Answer 28

browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned’