More quotes by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"
"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."