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“You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?”

Heart Sadness Tears Accuse

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“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.”

Heart Feelings Jane Eyre

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye: yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim, and you the priest to transfix it.”

Heart Victim Yourself Jane Eyre

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“It was not her heart so much as her temper that was wrong.”

Heart Attitude Temper

Book:Shirley

Source: Shirley

“This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart”

Heart Sweet Tear Drop

Book:Villette

Source: Villette

“How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!”

Heart Brain Ignorance Tumult Insurrection Jane Eyre

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

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