帕布莉卡“我喜欢我所看到的，而且希望多看看。但是有很长一个时期，我对你疏远，难得找你来作伴。我是一个理智的享乐主义者，希望把这个新奇而又令人兴奋的交朋友的喜悦延长；除此以外，有一阵我还经常担心，要是我任意把玩这朵花，它会凋谢——会失去可爱的新鲜的魅力。那时候我还不知道，它不是一开就谢的花，而是一朵光辉灿烂的假花，是用无法摧毁的宝石刻成的。”
I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more. Yet, for a long time, I treated you distantly, and sought your company rarely. I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance: besides, I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade-the sweet charm of freshness would leave it. I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem.
夏洛蒂•勃朗特（Charlotte Brontë）
《简爱》(Jane Eyre)
译者：祝庆英｜上海译文出版社
1944年版本的电影[简爱]
