Chapter 3 Quotes — Jane Eyre

I felt an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security, when I knew that there was a stranger in the room, an individual not belonging to Gateshead, and not related to Mrs. Reed.

Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heart-strings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities.

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

I never cried for such a thing in my life: I hate going out in the carriage. I cry because I am miserable.

I was shut up in a room where there is a ghost till after dark.

It is not my house, sir; and Abbot says I have less right to be here than a servant.

Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late!