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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
Emily BronteEmily Bronte I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
Emily BronteEmily Bronte A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
Emily BronteEmily Bronte We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
Emily BronteEmily Bronte Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
Emily BronteEmily Bronte I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte Worthless as wither’d weeds.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte 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.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
Emily BronteEmily Bronte If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte
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