Forced experience

"One is forced, step by step, to get experience in the world; but the learning is so disagreeable." - Charlotte Brontë

This quote does not appear in one of Brontë's novels, but in a letter featured in Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë. Miss Brontë's life was not an easy one, but a series of disagreeable experiences.

Truth with a capital T from Charlotte

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education"

Body and soul in mutiny

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour..."

Jane to Mr. Rochester

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

"...wherever you are is my home—my only home."

And that is the definition of true love.