And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down. Autor: Charlotte Brontë Copy Quote More from Charlotte Brontë “I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” “Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a sea…” “It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gon…” “I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at t…”