My living darling! These are certainly her limbs, and these her features; but I cannot be so blest, after all my misery. It is a dream; such dreams as I have had at night when I have clasped her once more to my heart, as I do now; and kissed her, as thus – and felt that she loved me, and trusted that she would not leave me…Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go – embrace me, Jane.
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 37. After their separation of ten months, the blind Rochester embraces Jane in disbelief in this great literary romantic moment. While he knows they are Jane’s form and features he touches, he feels that he is in a dream. He asks for a kiss before she flies away.