tolackcolour:“’Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that i
tolackcolour:“’Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.’ ‘I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.’”-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre“I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.”-Emily BrontëI love the Brontë sisters. This is probably one of the most marked-up, underlined, highlighted books that I own. I am always finding passages that pierce through me, gripping me with the perfect expression of thoughts and feelings I have felt deeply but never been able to unfetter with words. -- source link