Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
EMILY BRONTEIf 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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