It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds, whence there is no extrication.
— Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
This year I read Jane Eyre for the first time and w o w. It became one of my favourite books. It gloomy and romantic, and strangely modern in it's themes. I loved it.
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