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“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.”

“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 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.

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