I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
EMILY BRONTESweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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 wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
EMILY BRONTE







