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Novel · Coming of age story

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.9

Novel · Coming of age story

Reader, I married him.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.9

Novel · Coming of age story

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.7

Novel · Coming of age story

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1848

★ 3.7

Novel · Coming of age story

I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 2.2

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

Charlotte Bronte

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell · 1846

★ 2.1

Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

1853

★ 2.0

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age — Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Bronte

1835

★ 1.9

Novel · Coming of age story

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 1.3