Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life โ if ever I thought a good thoughtโif ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer โ if ever I wished a righteous wish โ I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.
Charlotte BronteYou ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.
Charlotte BronteYou need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.
Charlotte Bronte