It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication; for change, stimulus: that petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space: “Then,” I cried, half desperate, “grant me at least a new servitude!
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Charlotte Brontë, Villette
