Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain... - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"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."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."

"I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing."

"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."

"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."