"To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day."
Sayfa 216 - pdf
"I can live alone, if self-respect and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure, born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give."
Sayfa 201 - pdf
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
Sayfa 199 - pdf
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His changes of mood did not offend me, because I saw that I had nothing to do with their alternation: the ebb and flow depended on causes quite disconnected with me.
Sayfa 128 - pdf
My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something; trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive.
Sayfa 115 - pdf
The restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
Sayfa 109 - pdf
"Great houses and fine grounds require the presence of the proprietor."
Sayfa 100 - pdf
I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer: I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, and small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall, stately, and finely developed in figure; I felt it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and so marked.
Sayfa 98 - pdf
A child makes a house alive all at once.
Sayfa 97 - pdf
I longed to go where there was life and movement.
Sayfa 89 - pdf
Now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
Sayfa 85 - pdf
"It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury."
Sayfa 58 - pdf
"I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved."
Sayfa 57 - 58, pdf
"Nobody can be sure of the future."
Sayfa 55 - pdf