I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
Jane Eyre (2011) dir. Cary Fukunaga
Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate.
favorite literary classics ◆ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ◆ 1847
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.