I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.


Jane (Ch. 12) - Jane Eyre (1847)

Charlotte Brontë Quotes

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but...

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but...

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but...

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but...