Camille Pissarro/Mary Cassatt

The Fair Goers - Camille Pissarro

The Artist’s Mother while Reading - Mary Cassatt

1878

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.