{"quotes":[{"text":"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["books","jane-eyre"],"id":2348,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["charlotte-bronte","death","edward-fairfax-rochester","honeymoon","jane-eyre","life","marriage","matrimony"],"id":17579,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is one peopled by demons, phantoms, vampires, ghouls, boggarts, and nixies. Names of things of which I knew nothing are now so familiar that the creatures themselves appear to have real existence. The Arabian Nights are not more fantastic than our gospels; and Lempriere would have found ours a more marvelous world to catalog than the classical mythical to which he devoted his learning. Ours is a world of luprachaun and clurichaune, deev and cloolie, and through the maze of mystery I have to thread my painful way, now learning how to distinguish oufe from pooka, and nis from pixy; study long screeds upon the doings of effreets and dwergers, or decipher the dwaul of delirious monks who have made homunculi from refuse. Waking or sleeping, the image of some uncouth form is always present to me. What would I not give for a volume by the once despised 'A. L. O. E' or prosy Emma Worboise? Talk of the troubles of Winifred Bertram or Jane Eyre, what are they to mine? Talented authoresses do not seem to know that however terrible it may be to have as a neighbour a mad woman in a tower, it is much worse to have to live in a kitchen with a crocodile. This elementary fact has escaped the notice of writers of fiction; the re-statement of it has induced me to reconsider my decision as to the most longed-for book; my choice now is the Swiss Family Robinson. In it I have no doubt I should find how to make even the crocodile useful, or how to kill it, which would be still better.('Mysterious Maisie').","author":"Wirt Gerrare","tags":["a-l-o-e","creature","crocodile","emma-jane-worboise","fae","faerie","fairy","folklore","jane-eyre","monsters","occult","swiss-family-robinson"],"id":25391,"author_id":"Wirt+Gerrare"},{"text":"When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imagination's boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["feelings","heart","jane-eyre"],"id":94930,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"I tell you I must go!” I retorted, roused to something like passion. “Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal,—as we are!","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["classics","emotions","feelings","jane-eyre"],"id":95828,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["jane-eyre","purpose"],"id":97592,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"Joan spoke kindly, explaining patiently, as he always patiently explained things to her. “It’s like in that book you gave me, Jane Eyre. Jane says she isn’t a bird caught in a net. Instead she’s a human being with an independent will and that she has a treasure inside her that will keep her alive, no matter if anything bad happens.","author":"Cate Campbell Beatty","tags":["bravery","free-will","freedom","inner-strength","jane-eyre"],"id":100232,"author_id":"Cate+Campbell+Beatty"},{"text":"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["jane-eyre","mrs-reed","school"],"id":113088,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["inspirational","inspirational-life","jane-eyre","personal-growth"],"id":121384,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"As an artist she finds Dick's work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which offers a transparency into the hopes and desires of the person who made it. Bad art makes the viewer much more active. (Years later Chris would realise that her fondness for bad art is exactly like Jane Eyre's attraction to Rochester, a mean horse-faced junkie: bad characters invite invention.","author":"Chris Kraus","tags":["art","bad-art","characters","creativity","jane-eyre"],"id":159163,"author_id":"Chris+Kraus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}