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.
EMILY BRONTEI see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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She burned too bright for this world.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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.
EMILY BRONTE