“The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson.Chapter 37 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“You are no ruin, sir—no lightning-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.Chapter 37 · Jane Eyre · ★★★★☆→
“If she does, she will be too late, for our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.Chapter 38 · Edward Rochester · ★★★★☆→
“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.Chapter 38 · Jane Eyre · ★★★★☆→
“You mocking changeling—fairy-born and human-bred! You make me feel as I have not felt these twelve months. If Saul could have had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised without the aid of the harp.Chapter 37 · Edward Rochester · ★★★☆☆→
“And where is the speaker? Is it only a voice? Oh! I _cannot_ see, but I must feel, or my heart will stop and my brain burst. Whatever—whoever you are—be perceptible to the touch or I cannot live!Chapter 37 · Edward Rochester · ★★★☆☆→
“It is time some one undertook to rehumanise you, for I see you are being metamorphosed into a lion, or something of that sort. You have a 'faux air' of Nebuchadnezzar in the fields about you, that is certain: your hair reminds me of eagles' feathers; whether your nails are grown like birds' claws or not, I have not yet noticed.Chapter 37 · Jane Eyre · ★★★☆☆→
“Great God!—what delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?Chapter 37 · Edward Rochester · ★★★☆☆→