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 BRONTEEvery leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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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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