This character appears in 396 books.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: The protagonist and title character, orphaned as a baby. The book revolves around the events in her life. She is headstrong and fights for what she believes in, stands up for her rights and retaliates when harassed. She is passionate and determined. She is a plain-featured, small and reserved but talented, honest, and morally upright. She is in love with her employer, Mr Rochester. Jane is supposedly a parallel to Charlotte Bronte.
Memorable Quotes by Jane Eyre:
“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse.”
“Reader, I married him.”
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.”
“I could not help it; the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third story, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind’s eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it—and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement . . . and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended—a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence. It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.”
“'Shall I?' I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still severity; at his brow, commanding, but not open; at his eyes, bright and deep and searching, but never soft; at his tall imposing figure; and fancied myself in idea his wife. Oh! it would never do! As his curate, his comrade, all would be right: I would cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and devotion and vigour: accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at his ineradicable ambition. . . . I should suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under a rather stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free. I should still have my unblighted self to turn to: my natural unenslaved feelings with which to communicate in moments of loneliness.”
“I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to visit you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty. . . . You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me back—roughly and violently thrust me back—into the red-room, and locked me up there, to my dying day; though I was in agony; though I cried out, while suffocating with distress, ‘Have mercy! Have mercy, aunt Reed!’ And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me—knocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions this exact tale. People think you are a good woman, but you are bad; hard-hearted. YOU are deceitful!”
“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine! May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love!”
“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
“How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth.”
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Thursday Next: Book 1The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
Jane Eyre: A fictional character in a novel of the same name. The novel is one that Thursday Next has read numerous times.
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Thursday Next: Book 2Lost in a Good Book
by Jasper Fforde
Jane Eyre: Character in a novel of the same name. Thursday has entered the novel several times within her life. Most recently, she helped change the ending of the book.
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Thursday Next: Book 3The Well of Lost Plots
by Jasper Fforde
Jane Eyre: A fictional character in a novel of the same name. Thursday changed the ending of the novel.
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Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights (collective work)
by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë
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This book is based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story
by Emma Tennant
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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most
by Ronald B. Shwartz
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Dear AmericaWhen Will This Cruel War Be Over?
The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
by Barry Denenberg
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Book Lust: Book 3More Book Lust
Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
by Nancy Pearl
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