On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre