Quote#Children
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself…
Quote byCharlotte Brontë · 1816–1855
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Jane Eyre (1847), Jane (Ch. 11).
English (original)
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.
— Charlotte Brontë
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