A review by plathcel
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

emotional hopeful mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

“Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? 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! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh:— 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 am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”

“I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me.”

!!!!!!! i will never forget this book !!!!!!!