You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.

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

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.