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.
EMILY BRONTEI understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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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 have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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Terror made me cruel.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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