More quotes by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength."
"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."