How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
EMILY BRONTEHe 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!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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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.
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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!
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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No coward soul is mine.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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