"I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me."
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."
"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
"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."