“Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late!Chapter 3 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“"Deceit is, indeed, a sad fault in a child," said Mr. Brocklehurst; "it is akin to falsehood, and all liars will have their portion in the lake burning with fire and brimstone; she shall, however, be watched, Mrs. Reed."Chapter 4 · ★★★☆☆→
“The afternoon came on wet and somewhat misty: as it waned into dusk, I began to feel that we were getting very far indeed from Gateshead: we ceased to pass through towns; the country changed; great grey hills heaved up round the horizon: as twilight deepened, we descended a valley, dark with wood, and long after night had overclouded the prospect, I heard a wild wind rushing amongst trees.Chapter 5 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“Thus was I severed from Bessie and Gateshead; thus whirled away to unknown, and, as I then deemed, remote and mysterious regions.Chapter 5 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.Chapter 7 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“Well has Solomon said—'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.'Chapter 8 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“This was a demoniac laugh—low, suppressed, and deep—uttered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door.Chapter 15 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“"Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes," I murmured, as I undrew the bolt and passed out.Chapter 27 · Jane Eyre · ★★★☆☆→
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine.Chapter 27 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→