Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home – my only home.
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 22. Here Jane puts her feelings for Mr. Rochester on full display. She says this to him on her return to Thornfield after being at her aunt’s deathbed in Gateshead, her oppressive childhood home with so many unhappy memories. Jane is happy to be back in Thornfield, it has become like home to her. But home is not always a place and can sometimes be a person. Jane tells Rochester that he is that person to her.