#brontëstic

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“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

- Persuasion, Jane Austen

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The problem isn't that you don't care

The problem is that I spend all my time wishing I didn't

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"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

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-Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

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"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."

-Emma, Jane Austen

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Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne Elliot

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in

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"I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never."

-Persuasion, Jane Austen

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"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

-Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

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if you won't fall in love with me after watching one performance of mine and then hate me if i fail to perform good once, then what's even the point?

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-Complete Poems and Fragments, Sappho (Translated by Stanley Lombardo)

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"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."

- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

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if my "vulture eye" doesn't force you to kill me and hide my corpse under the floorboards because of your intense love for me, then what's even the point?

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i feel like I have lost you but; how do you lose someone you never really had?

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Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!

-Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

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if you won't worship like a dog at the shrine of my lies, then what's even the point?