I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. You are my sympathy—my better self—my good angel.
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Charlotte Brontë quotes & passages
3 passages by Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë died in 1855, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
About Charlotte Brontë
English novelist (1816–1855), the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived childhood. Author of Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley and Villette.
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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.
Reader, I married him.
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