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Chapter 1
‘Clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating’
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‘Me, she had dispensed from joining the group’
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‘Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view’
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‘Bad animal!’
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‘Dingy and unwholesome skin, thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities’
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‘Every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh in my bones shrank when he came near’
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‘Habitually obedient to John’
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‘You are a dependant'
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‘Wicked and cruel boy! You are like a murderer - you are like a slave-driver’
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‘I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer’
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'I received him in frantic sort’
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‘Picture of passion’
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Chapter 2
‘I resisted all the way’
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Chapter 2
‘Rebel slave’
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Chapter 2
‘What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman… your young master’
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Chapter 2
‘You ought not to think yourself on an equality with the Misses Reed and Master Reed’
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Chapter 2
‘Massive pillars of mahogany’
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Chapter 2
‘Curtains of deep-red damask’
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Chapter 2
‘Shades rose high, and glared white’
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Chapter 2
’Pale throne’
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Chapter 2
‘It was known to be so seldom entered’
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Chapter 2
‘It was in this chamber he breathed his last’
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Chapter 2
‘A sense of dreary consecration had guarded it from frequent intrusion’
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Chapter 2
‘No jail was ever more secure’
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Chapter 2
‘The strange little figure there gazing at me’
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Chapter 2
‘Half fairy, half imp’
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Chapter 2
‘Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned?
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Chapter 2
‘I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there’
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Chapter 2
‘A heterogenous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities’
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Chapter 2
‘Uncongenial alien’
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Chapter 2
‘Moonlight was still’
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Chapter 2
‘My heart beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears’
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Chapter 3
‘A terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars’
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Chapter 4
‘I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow’
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Chapter 3
‘The grim face at the top was like a carved mask’
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Chapter 3
‘Do you know where the wicked go after death?’
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Chapter 3
‘You have a wicked heart, and you must pray to God to change it’
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Chapter 3
‘I am not deceitful, if I were, I should say i loved you’
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Chapter 3
‘Eye of ice’
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Chapter 3
‘Shaking from head to foot, thrilled with ungovernable excitement’
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Chapter 3
‘I am glad you are no relation of mine’
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Chapter 3
‘An invisible bond had burst, and I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty’
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Chapter 3
‘I cried out in a savage, high voice’
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Chapter 5
‘The light of a half-moon just setting’
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Chapter 6
'Life appears to me too short to be spent nursing animosity or registering wrongs'
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Chapter 7
'You may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!'
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Chapter 9
'Where is God? What is God?'
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Chapter 9
God is my friend: I love Him; I believe He loves me
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Chapter 10
‘I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’
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Chapter 10
'She had stood me in the stead of mother, governess and, latterly, companion'
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Chapter 12
'Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a constraint'
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Chapter 12
'The rising moon; pale yet as a cloud, but brightening momentarily'
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Chapter 10
“Fearful and ghastly to me—oh, sir, I never saw a face like it! It was a discoloured face—it was a savage face. I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments!”
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Chapter 26
‘Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations! Her mother, the Creole, was both a madwoman and a drunkard!
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Chapter 26
What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight, tell: it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal
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Chapter 1
Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting
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Chapter 8
I had meant to be so good, and to do so much at Lowood; to make so many friends, to earn respect, and win affection.
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Chapter 7
my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety'
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Chapter 2
You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poor-house
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Need more quotes for a few chapters, but overall really really good quotes. Thank you !

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