# Quote — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

> "Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"
>
> I could risk no sort of answer by this time; my heart was full.
>
> "Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near to me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land, come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapped; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly."

- Author: [Charlotte Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte.md)
- Book: [Jane Eyre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/are-you-anything

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