Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Jane Eyre- 'Love is to be Sundered'

"Did I say, a few days since, that I had nothing to do with him but to receive my salary at his hands? Did I forbid myself to think of him in any other light than as a paymaster? Blasphemy against nature! Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have, gathers impulsively around him. I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I  have certain tastes and feelings in common with him. I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered:- and yet, while I breathe and think I must love him" (Bronte 260).


And- to this I must add- that I didn't meet a man that I truly liked until I was 23. 

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