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"I felt like telling her it wasn't my fault, but I stopped myself because I remembered that I already said that to my boss. It didn't mean anything. Besides, you always feel a little guilty."

Excited to finally start this one 😊

“I could no longer talk or laugh freely when he was by, because a tiresomely importunate instinct reminded me that vivacity was distasteful to him. - I fell under a freezing spell.”

“Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”

The pros of having a bookish little brother, is he doesn’t mind taking bookish pictures of me. 🙂‍↔️ New profile pic thanks to him 💕

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.” -Confucius

“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt- May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in the hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil of what you wholly love.”

Jane 😩😩

“I was for a while troubled with haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade- the sweet charm of freshness would leave it.”

I will forever love the simplicity of Goodreads. Thank you for never changing and providing a comfort zone for us bibliophiles ❤️

“I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. I looked at my love: that feeling which was my master’s- which he had created; it shivered my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle: sickness and anguish had seized it- it could not drive warmth from his breast.”

Poor Jane the emotional whirlwind she has been through 😭

“and wherever you are is my home, my only home.”

😩

“but you know very well you are thinking of another than they, and that he is not thinking of you.”

“I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth, but I experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers, and less withering dread of oppression. The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished.”

“this obvious absence of passion in his sentiments towards her, that my ever-torturing payment arose”

“He made me love him without looking at me.”

Ouch.

“The first thing necessary in fixing anything is to understand what is presently not working. To move your consciousness from being the old self to being the observer of the old self loosens the connection to the old you.”

“Strange energy was in his voice, strange fire in his look” -when you aren’t used to someone being in love with you 😭 Eyre is quite humorous.

“His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”

“I shall be called discontented. I could not help it; the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”

“We bond energetically with another in a place beyond time and space. Because we are entangled with others and frequently bond through emotions, it is almost impossible for us to change when we are still connected by negative experiences and emotions.”

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.”

“What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon”

“You told me you have destroyed it.”
“I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”

“There is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own.”

“You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.”

“But wealth is hidden, its income not spent. Wealth is an option not yet taken to buy something later. It’s value lies in offering you options, flexibility, and growth to one day purchase more stuff than you could right now.”