Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

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.

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.

Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

What the deuce is to do now?