I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
EMILY BRONTETerror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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Terror made me cruel.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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