I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
- Source
- Jane Eyre, ch. 23, 1847
- Written
- 1847
About this quotation
Jane says it to Mr Rochester when she believes he is about to marry another woman and that she must leave Thornfield. He answers by proposing to her, and she accepts.