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	Jane Eyre - quotes dwatkins		I have read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë several times. It is one of my favorite novels. I am currently in the process of thoroughly re-reading it. Therefore, as I proceed slowly and deliberately, I will be recording here quotes that struck my intellect, my emotions, or my fancy. This page will be continually updated until I finish. Quotes from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.” ~~~~Preface to the Second Edition “‘Unjust!—unjust!’ said my reason, forced by the agonizing stimulus into precocious though transitory power; and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression.” ~~~~Chapter II “I was a discord in Gateshead-hall; I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage. If they did not love me, in fact, as little did I love them. They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathize with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment.” ~~~~Chapter II “Yes, Mrs Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering. But I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heart-strings, you thought you were only up-rooting my bad propensities.” ~~~~Chapter III “How much I wished to reply fully to this question! How difficult it was to frame any answer! Children can feel, but they cannot analyze their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.” ~~~~Chapter III