"Is this my pale little elf? Is this my mustard-seed? This little sunny-faced girl, with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes?" - Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre.

"I saw them smile, laugh - it was nothing; the light of the candles had as much soul in it as their smile; the tinkle of the bell as much significance as their laugh. I saw Mr. Rochester smile - his stern features softened; his eye grew both brilliant and gentle, its ray both searching and sweet." - Jane, Jane Eyre.

"I shall be as dirty as I please: and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty." - Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights.

"He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect." - The Hound of the Baskervilles.

"If taking oneself seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well heave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves." - Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart.

"A vulture was hacking at my feet." - The Vulture, Franz Kafka

"Stay alive get uglier. Get so ugly! Grow horns and fur and cloven hooves. Grow third eyes and extra limbs and a pointed tail! Grow it all because ugliness has a lust for life that the inherently morbid nature of the beautiful does not." - Dead Like Kurt: Surviving The Celebrity Suicide (not a book but I want it to be here), Bethany Lamont

"Never was she so enchanting as at this time, when she recalled the sunshine of her smiles and spent them upon us." - Frankenstein.