My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
EMILY BRONTEHereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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.
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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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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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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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