(Source: davidfincherings, via scallawag)
“How [could I forget you]? I have lived a full life here. I have not been trampled on, I have not been petrified. I have not been excluded from every glimpse of what is bright. I have known you, Mr. Rochester, and it strikes me with anguish to be torn from you. … I’ve become nothing to you! Am I a machine without feelings? Do you think that because I am poor, obscure, plain and little that I am soulless and heartless? I have as much soul as you and full as much heart! And if God had blessed me with beauty and wealth, I could make it as hard for you to leave me as it is for I to leave you. I’m not speaking to you through mortal flesh. It is my spirit that addresses your spirit. As if we’d passed through the grave and stood at God’s feet equal. As we are!”
— Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre (2011)
“I dragged through life a capital error. Its consequence blights my existence for years. I’ve sought to escape it. This spring I came home, heart sore and soul withered. And I met a gentle stranger, whose society revives me. With her I feel I could live again, in a higher, purer way. Tell me. Am I justified in overleaping an obstacle of custom to attain her?”
— Fairfax Rochester, Jane Eyre (2011)
