His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

Everyone else is just cocktails.

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester