And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and... - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
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"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."
"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."