More quotes by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."
"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
"To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking."
"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"