All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.
Charlotte BronteRead
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote expresses awe at the beauty of someone, suggesting their appearance is otherworldly.
Charlotte Bronte's quote reflects a deep sense of admiration and wonder for an individual whose beauty seems to transcend ordinary human experience. The speaker is captivated by this person's appearance, implying it carries unique qualities that provoke curiosity about their origins and essence, thus hinting at a connection to something larger than life or perhaps an ethereal realm.
Themes
BeautyWonderAdmirationEtherealFace
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about the beauty of individuality, this quote could illustrate how some people possess a striking uniqueness.
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For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.
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But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.
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