Jane Eyre

Estar juntos, para nosotros es tener la libertad del aislamiento y el placer de la compañía

No creo, señor, que usted tenga el derecho de mandarme por el hecho de que sea mayor que yo, o porque haya visto más mundo. Su título de superioridad depende del uso que usted haya hecho de su tiempo y su experiencia.

¿Por qué afligirnos con las penas, cuando la vida acaba tan pronto y la muerte es con seguridad la puerta de la felicidad y de la gloria?

Nadie tiene derecho a mandar en mi voluntad. Lo que pienso es realizable: no hace falta más sino que mi imaginación descubra los medios de conseguirlo.

Era incapaz de controlar las pupilas, empeñadas en fijarse en él. Lo miré, obteniendo un penetrante placer al hacerlo, un placer exquisito y a la vez doloroso, oro puro con un acerado punto de agonía.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do;...

...she had taken with her the serene atmosphere I had been breathing in her vicinity — and now I was left in my natural element, and beginning to feel the stirring of old emotions.

No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough; if others don´t love me, I would rather die than live— I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen.

For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness; ear, eye, and mind were alike strained by dread, such dread as children only can feel.

What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon! How all my brain was i tumult, and all my heart in insurrection!