The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.