Jane Eyre Love quotes Flashcard Example #11695

“While I breathe and think, I must love him.”

“I had learnt to love Mr Rochester: I could not unlove him now.”

“Wherever you are is my home-my only home.”

“Gathering me to his breast, pressing his lips on my lips: “so, Jane.”

“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you-especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere inder my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.”

“I summon you as my wife: it is you only I intend to marry.”

“He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man ans the broad sun I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had more an idol.”

“He would not give one chance of heaven nor relinquish, for the elysium of her love, one hope of the true, eternal Paradise.”

“I took that dear hand, held ot a moment to my lips.”

“Reader I married him.”

“He made me love him without even looking at me.”

“Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.”

“I felt as if I could not let her go”

“Love me, then, or hate me, as you will” I said at last “You have my full and free forgiveness.”

“…you are a dependent…”

“It is your place to be humble”

“If you don’t sit still, you must be tied down.”

“Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”

“I must see Helen, – I must embrace her before she died, – I must give her one last kiss, exchange with her one last word.”

“I will stay with you, dear Helen: no one shall take me away.”

“…women feel just as men feel.”

“He laid a heavy hand on my shoulder, and leaning on me with some stress, limped to his horse”.

“I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may.”

“…my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face; I could not keep their lids under control.”

“He made me love him without looking at me.”

“I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered: – and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.”

“struggle with two tigers – jealousy and despair”

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! – I have as much soul as you, – and full as much heart!”

” – it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, – as we are!”

“I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions.”

” ‘My bride is here,’ he said, again drawing me to him, ‘because my equal is here, and likeness. Jane, will you marry me?’ “

“You – you strange, you almost unearthly thing! – I love as my own flesh.”

“…I must have you for my own… Will you be mine? Say yes, quickly.”

“I loved him very much – more that I could trust myself to say – more than words had power to express.”

“I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.”

“Janet”; “little wife”; “little elf”; “my mustard-seed”;

“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman-almost a bride-was a cold solitary girl again.”

“Terrible moment: full of struggle, blackness, burning! Not a human being that ever lived could wish to be loved better than I was loved: and him who thus loved me I absolutely worshipped: and I must renounce love and idol.”

‘Oh, Jane! my hope – my love – my life!’ broke in anguish from his lips.

‘My daughter, flee temptation’. ‘Mother, I will.’

“I do not want to leave him – I cannot leave him.

“Marry! I don’t want to marry, and never shall marry.”

“No one would take me for love”

“…you are formed for labour, not for love. A missionary’s wife you must – shall be. You shall be mine: I claim you – not for my pleasure, but for my Sovereign’s service.”

“I wish to mate: it is the missionary.”

“…undoubtedly enough of love would follow upon marriage to render the union right even in your eyes.”

“I scorn your idea of love”/ “the very name of love is an apple of discord between us.”

“It was my time to assume ascendancy. My powers were in play and force.”

“Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions?”

“Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?”

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”

“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. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected;”

“A mad cat”

“Folds of scarlet drapery” and “drear November day”

John Reed says he owns the books in which jane reads “will do in a few years” – Symbolically suggests that even though a women may understand what is written, conventionally it is the boy who woll geow ip to be the heir in control oh hpusehold documents, wills and deeds.

“Poor orphan child”

“If she were a nice, pretty child” – Implying she would be pitied if she was visually pleasing

“A beauty like Miss Georgiana would be more moving in tbe same condition” – Implies successful femininity requires good looks.

“What a great nose! and what a mouth! and what large prominent teeth!” – Reflects the influence of Bessies stories in Jane and the implication is also that Mr Brocklehurst is a liar.

Her first name is Maria. This is derived from Mary (Christ’s mother) and the name of Bronte’s eldest sister.

“The door opened, and an individual carrying a light entered; … a tall lady with dark hair, dark eyes, and a pale and large forehead; her figure was partly enveloped in a shawl, he countenance was grave,her bearng erect”

“little beds… assigned as gardens for the pupils to cultivate” – Based on Victorian idea that through gardening children might themselves become cultivated eg. good and moral. Also suggests that nature should and will be tamed.

“You dirty, disagreeable girl! You have never cleaned your nails this morning!”

“in the tranquillity she imparted there was an alloy of inexpressible sadness” – Helens faith makes her turn away from her life.

“Her grave… for fifteen years… was only covered by a grassy mound; but noe a gray marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word ‘Resurgam (means I shall rise again)'”

“this is not to be a regular autobiography” – in order to explain that 8 years have passed and Her childhood is wrapped up

“I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer”

“You are genteel enough; you look like a lady, and it is as much I ever expected of you: you were no beauty as a child.”

“array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks”

“Inexperienced youth” ; “A new chapter in a novel”

“necessity compels me to make you useful”

Thornfield is ice before R returns and Jane says she is “becoming incapable of appreciating” the “very privileges of security and ease” – Under R’s power she will begin to melt and unlearn much of her Lowood reserve.

“When you came on me in Hay Lane last night, I thought unaccountably of fairy tales”

“You should hear mama on the chapter of governesses; Mary and I have had… a dozen at least on one day; half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi”

“Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain.”

“Vexing and sooting him” (rochester)

“dupe” ; “blind puppy”

“Good-night, my -“

“I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer”

“rank and connections”

“the gentry their fortunes”

“You are genteel enough; you look like a lady, and it is as much I ever expected of you: you were no beauty as a child.”

“array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks”

“Inexperienced youth” ; “A new chapter in a novel”

“necessity compels me to make you useful”

Thornfield is ice before R returns and Jane says she is “becoming incapable of appreciating” the “very privileges of security and ease” – Under R’s power she will begin to melt and unlearn much of her Lowood reserve.

“When you came on me in Hay Lane last night, I thought unaccountably of fairy tales”

“You should hear mama on the chapter of governesses; Mary and I have had… a dozen at least on one day; half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi”

“Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain.”

“Vexing and sooting him” (rochester)

“dupe” ; “blind puppy”

“Good-night, my -“

“rank and connections”

“You think too much of the love of human beings.”

“I’ll stay with you, dear Helen: no one shall take me away.”

“I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed.”

“If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical – is false.”

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more sustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

“Why did you take such pains to make me believe you wished to marry Miss Ingram?”

“I must part with you for my whole life: I must begin a new existence among strange faces and strange scene.”

“…you must shun her example; if necessary, avoid her company, exclude her from your games…”

“Punish her body to save her soul.” – comes from ‘beware those who mutilate the flesh’

“Naturally! Yes, but we are not to conform to nature… Miss Temple that girl’s hair must be cut of entirely.”

“I feel I can easily and naturally make room in my heart for you, as my third and youngest sister.”

“Starve their immortal souls.”

“If ye suffer hunger or thirst for my sake, happy are ye.”

“… She breathed a little fast and coughed a short cough, I momentarily forgot my own sorrows to yield to a vague concern for her.”

“Miss temple embraced us both, saying, as she drew us to her heart – ‘God bless you, my child.’

“How are you tonight, Helen? Have you coughed much today?”

“St. John! you used to call Jane your third sister…”

“When I left college, I was sent out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for me.”

“A French dancer’s bastard?”

“Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there.”

“… guard her against her worst fault, a tendency to deceit.”

“It was her nature to wound me cruelty.”

“And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader: gratitude and many associates, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”

“…he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine.”

“I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.”

“I knew… you would do me good in some way, at some time; – I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you…”

“The ease of his manner frees me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him.”

“All my heart is yours sir: it belongs to you…”

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you. You are sympathy – my better self – my good angel…. powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”

“I ask you to pass through life at my side – to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”

“My very soul demands you.”

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”

“Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. I would not, therefore, immediately charm the snake.”

“Jane, will you marry me?”
“Yes sir.”
“A cripples man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Truly, Jane.”
“Most truly, sir.”

“Wronged and fettered bird”
“Caged eagle”
“Raven black”

“He would of loved me for a while.”

“It was a grand boom doubtless and independence would be glorious.”

“Glorious discovery to a lonely wretch.”

“Never shall marry.”

“You, sir are the most phantom-like of all you are a mere dream.”

“Jane! Will you hear reason?”(he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) “because, if you won’t, I’ll try violence.”

“My hopes were all dead – struck with a subtle doom.”

“Jane Eyre… was a solitary girl again: her life pale; her prospects were desolate.”

“…for my low-born head, and ask if that was it good enough for a woman who could bring her husband neither fortune, beauty, nor connections.”

“I feared my hopes were too bright to be realised; and I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that I imagined my fortune had passed it’s meridian, and must now decline.”

“Mr Rochester was not to me what he had been; for he was no what I had though him.”

“Burning with the light of red jewel and furnace flame.”

“…the thunder crashed, fierce and frequent as the lightning gleamed.”

“I was safe and tranquil.”

“Jewels for Jane eyre sounds unnatural and strange: I would rather not have them.”

“I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk.”

“…to freak if children was a sure sign of trouble, either to one’s self or one’s kin.”

“Promise me only to stay a week..”
“You have as good as informed me, sir, that you are going shortly to be married?”

“I declined accepting more than was my due.”

“…the grate and fire-irons were burnished bright, and the fire burnt clear.”

“She wanted to know if I was happy at Thornfield Hall..”

“I approached my cheek to her lips: she would not touch it.”

“Well, I have twice done you a wrong which I regret now.”

“…so I bore with her feeble-minded wailings and selfish Lamentations as well as I could.”

“You perform your won part in life and burden no one.”

“You had no right to be born, for you make no use of life.”

“Everyone knows you are the most selfish, heartless creature in existence: and I know your spiteful hatred towards me.”

“I half ventured to hope that he would, even after his marriage, keep us together somewhere under the shelter of his protection.”

“You must see the carriage, Jane, and tell me if you don’t think it will suit mrs Rochester exactly; and whether she won’t look like queen Boadicea.”

“Thank you, me 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.”

“Absent from me a whole month, and forgetting me quite, I’ll be sworn!”

“Hasten! Hasten! Be with him while you may: but a few more days or weeks, at most, and you are parted from him for ever!”

“How full the hedges are of roses.”

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

“The flame flickers in the eye: the eye shines like dew; it looks soft and full of feeling; it smiles at my jargon; it is susceptible; impression follows impression through it’s clear sphere; where it ceases to smile.”

“Delights as times in laughter.”

“The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens.”

“My little friend.”

“Flowers in the garden awake and expand.”

“You have notices my tender perchant to miss Ingram.”

“My eyes were involuntarily drawn to his face; I could not keep their lids under control.”

“He made me love him without looking at me.”

“I must smother hope. I must remember that he cannot care much for me.”

“Good-night my-” He stopped, bit his lip and abruptly left me.”

“…feel a strange chill fainting of the heart.”

“you have nothing to do with the master of thornfield.”

“Vague suggestions kept wandering across my brain of reasons why I should quit thornfield.”

“…screened by the curtain, I could see without being seen.”

“You examine me, Miss Eyre,” “do you think me handsome?”

“Which had been lit for dinner, filled the room with a fractal breath of light; the large fire was all red and clear; the purple curtains him rich and ample before the lofty window and loftier arch; everything was still… and filling up each pause, the beating of winter rain against the panes.”

“Adele, who, she affirmed, was my daughter; and perhaps she may be, though I see no proofs of such grim paternity written in her countenance: pilot is more like me than she. Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned her child, and ran away to Italy with musician or singer.”

“No: Adele is not answerable for either her mother’s faults or yours: I have a regard for her; and now that I know she is, in a sense, parentless – forsaken by her mother and disowned by you, sir.”

“Strange energy was in his voice, strange fire in his look.”

“Her grave is in Brocklebridge churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only concerned by a grassy mound; but now now a grey marble tablet marks the spot, inscribed with her name, and the word “Resurgam.””

“God is my father; God is my friend: I love him; I believe he loves me.”

“Nor ever ceased to cherish for her a sentiment of attachment, as strong, tender, and respectful as any that ever animated my heart.”

“The school, thus improved, became in time a truly useful and novel institution.”

“She has stood me in the stead of mother, governess and latterly, companion.”

“Her soul sat in her lips and language flowered.”

“I am not deceitful.”

Jane describes herself as “rebel slave”

“I am so glad you are come; it will be quite pleasant living here now with a companion.”