My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
EMILY BRONTEAny relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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 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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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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