The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
EMILY BRONTEYou 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Sweet 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.
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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
EMILY BRONTE







