Chapter 22 Quotes — Jane Eyre

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

Never had he called me more frequently to his presence; never been kinder to me when there—and, alas! never had I loved him so well.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

A true Janian reply! Good angels be my guard! She comes from the other world—from the abode of people who are dead; and tells me so when she meets me alone here in the gloaming! If I dared, I'd touch you, to see if you are substance or shadow, you elf!—but I'd as soon offer to take hold of a blue _ignis fatuus_ light in a marsh.

I was going back to Thornfield: but how long was I to stay there? Not long; of that I was sure.

There you are! Come on, if you please.