Charlotte Brontë

"Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."

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

"Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. At intervals, while turning over t…"

"I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I…"

"If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would gro…"

"Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life."

"My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinle…"