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Charlotte Brontë Collection (Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley) (Classic Collections Book 4) QUOTES

Charlotte Brontë Collection (Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley) (Classic Collections Book 4) QUOTES

1 " Independently of romantic rubbish, however, that old garden had its charms. On summer mornings I used to rise early, to enjoy them alone; on summer evenings, to linger solitary, to keep tryste with the rising moon, or taste one kiss of the evening breeze, or fancy rather than feel the freshness of dew descending. The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants. There was a large berceau, above which spread the shade of an acacia; there was a smaller, more sequestered bower, nestled in the vines which ran all along a high and grey wall, and gathered their tendrils in a knot of beauty, and hung their clusters in loving profusion about the favoured spot where jasmine and ivy met and married them. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Charlotte Brontë Collection (Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley) (Classic Collections Book 4)

2 " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars—a cage so peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. I "

― Charlotte Brontë , Charlotte Brontë Collection (Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley) (Classic Collections Book 4)