I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you. You are my sympathy – my better self – my good angel – I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you – and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 27. In this passage a very emotional Rochester passionately reaffirms his love for Jane. He is trying to persuade her to stay after the disaster of their abandoned wedding. Rochester uses powerful metaphorical images, comparing Jane to his good angel and saying that they are bound together and fused in one by the strong flame of passion. Some of the most romantic lines in all of literature are to be found in Jane Eyre. This is one of those passages.