I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

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

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

I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.