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Put the jerk in the south wing, you won't see him for weeks at a time. Or lock him in the attic. The law will not be on your side, but literary precedent will.


Sarah Rees Brennan


#law

The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them forever from the interests and follies of respectable young girls. It was Charlotte’s goal to represent the plight of plain, poor, high-minded young women. Sometimes she gave them more rectitude and right thinking than we can easily endure, but she knew their vulnerability, the neglect they expected and received, the spiritual and psychological scars inflicted upon them, the way their frantic efforts were scarcely noticed, much less admired or condoned.


Elizabeth Hardwick


#the-brontes #education

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.


Charlotte Brontë


#fate #jane-eyre #duty

My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.


Charlotte Brontë


#love

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.


Anne Brontë


#anne-bronte #bronte-sisters #unrequitet-love #love

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.


Emily Brontë


#dreams #fiction #literature #change

What do you think is my favourite book? Just now, I mean; I change every three days. "Wuthering Heights." Emily Bronte was quite young when she wrote it, and had never been outside of Haworth churchyard. She had never known any men in her life; how could she imagine a man like Heathcliffe? I couldn't do it, and I'm quite young and never outside the John Grier Asylum - I've had every chance in the world. Sometimes a dreadful fear comes over me that I'm not a genius. Will you be awfully disappointed, Daddy, if I don't turn out to be a great author?


Jean Webster


#jerusha-abbott #writing #wuthering-heights #change

Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did while rendering my heart strings, you thought you were only uprooting your bad propensities.


Charlotte Brontë


#jane-eyre #forgiveness

By the age of twenty the distinctly Branwellian qualities would be developed from which he would never again shake himself free.


Winifred Gérin


#age

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.


Charlotte Brontë


#death #edward-fairfax-rochester #honeymoon #jane-eyre #life






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