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.
EMILY BRONTEI have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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 have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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