The following passage is one of my favorite quotes from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. This takes place right after she decides that she cannot marry her lover, Mr. Rochester.
"I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned tyrant, held passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony."
I don't know about you, but I think that that is some of the most beautiful writing I've ever heard. If you haven't read Jane Eyre, now is the time!
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