jane eyre quotes

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AAMHWHWTCMIO - JANE, STJOHN, GENDER

"as a man he would have wished to coerce me into obedience"

ABP...TS,N...SSE...H,FIWAM- MEN, RELIGION

"A black pillar!...the straight, narrow...shape standing erect...He, for it was a man"

ADL-L,S,AD- BERTHA

"A demonic laugh-low, supressed and deep"

AITBTACRTAH- SETTING

"as if they belonged to a church rather than a house"

ALLCWLHAAHH- ROCHESTER

"a lion-like creature with long hair and a huge head"

CTTF- ROCHESTER

"Come to the fire"

DCSTTTTOF - ST JOHN, RELIGION

"Dont cling so tenaciously to the ties of flesh"

DNFTIYRI,IINMYDBG...RTBMW,AYLYFTATOSEABO -STJOHN, RELIGION,

"Do not forget that if you reject it, it is not me you deny but God...Refuse to br my wife and you limit yourself for ever to a track of selfish ease and barren obscurity"

DTBAIO...BTC...ETFWWDI - JANE/ROCESTER, RELIGION, LOVE

"Deluged the bed and its occupant...baptized the couch...extinguishing the flames which were devouring it"

DYTGWBSWHAO?WHAAMS? -ST JOHN RELIGION, MEN

"Do you think God will be satisfied with half an oblation? Will he accept a mutilated sacrifice?"

FMFTS - JANE

"forced my feelings to submit"

FTKTFOMNCL,TCITBIANUAC,TTIFCVAV -JANE, FIRE AND ICE, CLASS AND GENDER

"forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital atter vital"

GDNGMMLTTA;ATDAYW...W..BAETCS- JANE, RELIGION

"God did not give me my life to throw away; and to do as you wish...would...be almost equivalent to suicide"

HAASHAMPHOY- JANE, ST JOHN BELONGING

Ch29 "Human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you"

HHWTAHEB...BTHIALOASA:TFIAAI. STJOHN, RELIGION

Ch32 "His hand would tremble and his eye burn...but that heart is already laid on a sacred altar:the fire is arranged around it."

HLRLAFOFIMMAOWSI…TSOGI,OSDP…DWANF…DPCT STJOHN, RELIGION, LOVE

Ch32 "human love rising like a freshly opened fountain in my mind and overflowing with sweet indunation...the seeds of good intentions, of self denying plans...deluged with a nectarous flood...delicious poison cankering them"

HMW...SATFASS...GAS..SLSOTP

"his mad wife...streaming against the flames as she stood...gave a spring..she lay smashed on the pavement"

HOTJ...AT [H] A- MEN, CLASS AND GENDER

Ch1: "Habitually obedient to John...Accustomed to [his] abuse"

HWIRBNLF,BM;HEWACBBG;HTASI-NM -STJOHN

"he was in reality become no longer flesh, but marble, his eye was a cold, bright, blue gem; his tongue, a speaking instrument-nothing more"

IAC;NFIM...WIAH,AFDI- JANE, STJOHN

"I am cold; no fervour infects me...Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolves ice"

IAI,S,AWAR:IAMOM - JANE, AUTONOMY

"I am independent, sir, as well as rich: I am my own mistress"

IAMHLAFAHIM...BOHB, AFOHF - LOVE, GENDER

"I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine...bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh"

IDL;FLIG -JANE, AUTONOMY

"I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped"

IDWMTPH:BTDS,IFDMAMTIMDHMN,SHMF -JANE, ST JOHN, GENDER

"I daily wished more to please him: but to do so I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties"

IEYYPOM,YCC,YUM....WFWM...HIIDM,IHARTGPOOL:AIWGI,CWIM

"I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory...when fate wronged me...happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may"

IFNFOH,ABLS- ROCHESTER

"I felt no fear of him, and but little shyness"

IHTIRIYOOTC.BGSNAMS -ST JOHM, RELIGION, BELONGING

"I had thought I had recognised in you one of the chosen. But God sees not as man sees"

IODLM,IWRDTL, ICBTBSAH"- JANE, BELONGING

Ch8 "If others don't love me I would rather die than live, I cannot bear to be solitary and hated"

ITMM...TGMSTL...APLTIHDH - ROCHESTER, RELIGION

"I thank my Maker...to give me strength to lead...a purer life than I have done hitherto"

LATMTSTBSINA..ILIC,LTTE -HELEN, RELIGION

Ch6 "Life appears too short to be spent in nursing animosity...I live in calm, looking to the end"

LF,FWSICT - HELEN, RELIGION

"language flowed, from what source I cannot tell"

LACISBC - SETTING

"like a corridor in some Bluebeard's castle"

MEWDITHF,ICNKTLUC...IL,AHAAPIL..

"my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face, I could not keep their lids under control...i looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking"

IL,AHAAPIL…APWTTPMMFWKTWFWHHCIP,YSADDDN

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking...a pleasure which the thirst perished man might feel who knows the well from which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoop and drinks divine draughts nevertheless

MFHDHK,A,WRE,SWWSOTTW

Mrs Fairfax had dropped her knitting, and, with raised eyebrows, seemed wondering what sort of talk this was

MHBTMHGH..IWO,S

Ch2: "My heart beat thick, my head grew hot;...I was oppressed, suffocated"

MHIM,-MHIM...TIMSFI YAFFL,NFL...YSBM:ICY

My heart is mute,-my heart is mute...then I must speak for it...you are formed for labour, not for love...you shall be mine: I claim you

MSHDFJTG- WOMEN, CLASS

Ch1: "Me, she had dispensed from joining the group"

MTFBWSTAFAS

Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary

O! NS!-NS!-NR!...IILHWWASTOTIAIP?

Order! No snivel!-no sentiment!-no regret!...is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebian?

OOTDSSRHAGW...TB...CEC..L...LAPT

Ch2 "Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white...the bed...cushioned easy-chair looking...like a pale throne"

POAG,D,P,AP...B,AALOR

Portrait of a governess, disconnected, poor and plain...Blanche, an accomplished lady of rank

R,IMH

Reader, I married him

SIM...HDI,MR?HDI?BIITT. YTIHNF,ATICDWOBOLOK,BICLS..BYAB;YAHH; YAD

Ch4 "Speak I must...How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so...but you are bad; hard-hearted. You are deceitful!"

SLAMC- bessie

Ch2 "She's like a mad cat."

SMAWSSTTF,"DB!"

Ch3 "She might as well have said to the fire, 'don't burn!'"

TCE,WGRECHE, MLALTSS

the caged eagle, whose gold ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless samson

TFI...TIOAMLN...SAOA...AFOWPB

They flocked in...the impression of a much larger number...sweeping amplitude of array...a flock of white plumy birds

TGWAWE..WWSHATEEGOP - SETTING

lowood “The garden was a wide enclosure...with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect”

TG,WMBOOGOL, I...NAMOTTF,B...AA...YMSH...PHBTSHS...TGI-AL

Ch7 "this girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is...not a member of the true flock, but...an alien...you must shun her...punish her body to save her soul....-this girl is- a liar"

TM?BYC;WAI!TM?

To me? Bless you child; what an idea! To me?

TWNPOTAWTD - JANE, AUTONOMY

Ch1 opening line 'There was no possibility of taking a walk that day'

VAHHSIHD,H,ITLMFTWATTTCHMT - LOVE, GENDER

'violent as he had seemed in his despair, he, in truth, loved me far too well and tenderly to constitue himself my tyrant'

WACB!...YALAM, YALASD-YALTRE! -MEN, GENDER AND CLASS

Ch1: 'Wicked and cruel boy!..You are like a murderer-you are like a slave driver- you are like the Roman Emporers!'

WASTBVCG:BWFJAMF...TSTRAC,TAAS...IINM...TSTTOTCTTMPAKS...IITTCT...ITSTDM...TCHPNFTS

'Women are supposed to be very calm generally:but women feel just as men feel;..they suffer too rigid a constraint, too absolite a stagnation ...it is narrowminded ...to say they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings...it is thoughtless to condemn them...if they seek to do more...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex'

YAAD,MS...YOTB - MEN, HOME AND BELONGING, CLASS AND GENDER

Ch1: 'You are a dependent, mama says... you ought to beg'

YAKMN...YWAV,UAU - ST JOHN, JANE, GENDER

'You are killing me now...your words are...violent, unfeminine and untrue'

Y...CAAITCIHFFASL.INHAH,INHBOS -JANE, HOME AND BELONGING

'You...cannot at all imagine the craving I have for fraternal and sisterly love. I never had a home, I never had brothers or sisters; I must and will have them now'

YGDOP..AYWDI - ROCHESTER/WOMEN

'You geniune daughter of Paris...amuse yourself with disembowling it'

YM...FTVB...THYSTIS - MEN, RELIGION

Ch7 'You may...feed their vile bodies but .. think how you starve their immortal souls'

YNFJ,DY,ME?...BYNFL - JANE, ROCHESTER, LOVE

'You never felt jealousy, did you, miss eyre?...because you never felt love'

YTM..AID:BMHSWGTTBG...IDW:IWHSMIF -ROCHESTER, RELIGION

'you think me...an irreligious dog:but my heart swells in gratitude to the beneficent God...i did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower'

WTSWESOWD,WLISSO,ADISCAETTH-TG? HELEN, RELIGION

Ch8 'Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness-to glory?'

HMMLHWLAM…WIBATIMLH

“He made me love him without looking at me…while I breathe and think I must love him”

IHISATFOHC…TWT;TAAN

“in hers I see all the faults of her class…the whole tribe; they are a nuisance”

GN,M-HS,BHLAALM

“‘Good night, my-’ he stopped, bit his lip and abruptly left me

HGMWACG,TSOHLF:AASCHB…’J,IGAB-IGABJ’

“He grave my wrist a convulsive grip: the smile on his lips froze: apparently a spasm caught his breath…’jane, I’ve got a blow-I’ve got a blow Jane”

NSTMBAG;ITSLM,OAIW;AI,WFMCAOM,R,I,CTHWFF

“nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as i was, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness”

IAABWBWB,ISQISPIVATSH

“impotent as a bird with both wings broke, it still quivered its shattered pinions in vain attempt to seek him

DKML-TFSM

“dont keep me long- the fire scorches me”

TPMRF...BJSHTFWIEA,ATCVIED.

“the passions may rage furiously…but judgement shall have the final word in every arguement, and the casting vote in every decision”

APABS

“a pale and bloody specatacle”

TWB...AMD...ACSBOP

“The wild beast…a mocking demon..a carrion seeking bird of prey”

SSTB:SSSDMH

“she sucked the blood: she said she’d drain my heart”

IHLAL-MPL-SNAWD

“I had left a lamb- my pet lamb- so near a wolf’s den”

PSW!IWTLFHTNCHHFOM:LSHHM-D,SMHMS

“poor suffering woman! it was too late for her to now change her habitual frame of mind: living she had hated me- dying, she must hate me still”

EL....FLAP

“eden-like…fruit as large as plums”

IIAIIHASSUMLR, TAIKTASSSITCQOYLF

“it is as if i had a string somewhere under my left rib, tied and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quater of your little frame”

TLWYT:SD,BCTTR…GL..FB

“The light was yet there: shining dim, but constant through the rain…guiding light…friendly beam”

ISMWTAATFIAMBTFYFE..IILLOTNOD - jane/love

"it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever...it is like looking on the necessity of death"

DYTICSABNTY? DYTICBTH…MDOLWDFMC?DYT,BIAP,O,PAL,IASAH? YTW! IHAMASAYAFAMH!AIGHGMWSB,AMW,ISHMIAHAIIFYTLMAIINFMTLY

"do you think I can stay and become nothing to you? do you think i can bear to have...my drop of living water dashed from my cup? do you think, because i am poor obscure plain and little, i am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much a soul as you and full as much heart! And if god had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, i should have made it as hard as it is for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you."

DSS,LAWAFBTIRIOPID/IANBANNEM;IAAFHBWIW

"dont struggle so, like a wild and frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in desperstion i am no bird and no net ensares me; i am a free human being with independent will"

TPOU-ITOOTBGTMTDISAAF

"the paradise of union- i thought only of the bliss given to me to drink in so abundant a flow"

ISTHLMDITDUBOAGR;IHAFLIRM,AFTTC…TWCIMSISIDM;IFNS:ICIDWTFOM - jane religiion

i seemed to have laid me down in the dried up river bed of a great river; i head a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the torrent come…the waters came into my soul i sank in deep mire, i felt no standing: i came into deep waters; the floods overflowed me”

IYWNHRIWTV- rochester

“if you do not hear reason I will try violence”

IANCAD

“i am not cool and disspasionate

HSBMAETOR,AAEIBMATBS,ICNITDSGFHCOWIHMAI- religion jane

“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”

IAGYANROMIWNCYAALAIL

“I am glad you are no relation of mine I will never call you aunt as long as I live”