“How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Crying, upset, Tears
“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Love, Happiness, romance
“I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Silence, Conversation, Friends
“If she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Perfection, interesting, Personality
“He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Breakups, Heartbroken, Left Behind
“When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your m…”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Caution, wedding
“Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Money, rich
“Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Single, Unmarried, Men
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Sensitive, Insecure, Closed Off
“I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Love, Protection, strength
“But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Sadness, Crying, smiling