Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.Charlotte Bronte
“I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
English novelist · 1816 – 1855
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the Brontë sisters. She is best known for Jane Eyre (1847), published under the pen name Currer Bell, a landmark of English literature.
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