You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
EMILY BRONTEMay you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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She burned too bright for this world.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Terror 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.
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Terror made me cruel.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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