Quote 1: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Quote 2: “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
Quote 3: “ I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
Quote 4: “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
Quote 5: “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
Quote 6: “All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
Quote 7: “The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
Quote 8: “I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”
Quote 9: “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Watch Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (1847) summary in the linked video
