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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Again, as he kissed me, painful thoughts darkened his aspect.
2 It was a sudden meeting, and one in which rapture was kept well in check by pain.
3 In two minutes he rose from the stile: his face expressed pain when he tried to move.
4 I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
5 The cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded.
6 Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
7 We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest.
8 This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.
9 The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him.
10 St. John was not a man to be lightly refused: you felt that every impression made on him, either for pain or pleasure, was deep-graved and permanent.
11 My eye rose to his; and while I looked in his fierce face I gave an involuntary sigh; his gripe was painful, and my over-taxed strength almost exhausted.
12 Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy, and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it.
13 I softened considerably what related to the three days of wandering and starvation, because to have told him all would have been to inflict unnecessary pain: the little I did say lacerated his faithful heart deeper than I wished.
14 Old Mr. Rochester and Mr. Rowland combined to bring Mr. Edward into what he considered a painful position, for the sake of making his fortune: what the precise nature of that position was I never clearly knew, but his spirit could not brook what he had to suffer in it.
15 Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review the times to which I allude: the moral degradation, blent with the physical suffering, form too distressing a recollection ever to be willingly dwelt on.
16 It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
17 The moment Miss Scatcherd withdrew after afternoon school, I ran to Helen, tore it off, and thrust it into the fire: the fury of which she was incapable had been burning in my soul all day, and tears, hot and large, had continually been scalding my cheek; for the spectacle of her sad resignation gave me an intolerable pain at the heart.
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