Extended Reading

Jane Eyre quotes

  • Jane Eyre: Have you something for me to do?

    Mary Rivers: You're doing something already. May I see?

    [Looks at Jane's drawings]

    Mary Rivers: Oh, these are wonderful! St. John...

    [Mary takes a sketch Jane did of St. John over to him]

    Jane Eyre: No, Mary, please.

    Mary Rivers: See how skilled Jane is!

    St John Rivers: Is this how you perceive me, Miss Elliott?

    [Jane remains silent]

    St John Rivers: Well. How fierce I am.

  • Young Jane: [Helen is dying from consumption] How are you?

    Helen Burns: I'm happy, Jane. I'm going home.

    Young Jane: Back to your father.

    Helen Burns: I'm going to god.

    [Jane is visibly upset]

    Helen Burns: Don't be sad. You have a passion for living, Jane. And one day you'll come to the region of bliss.

    [pause]

    Helen Burns: Don't leave me. I like to have you near.

    Young Jane: I will not leave you.

    [Helen kisses Jane's hand she is holding]

    Young Jane: No one shall take me from you.

    [They fall asleep, while Helen dies]