The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
EMILY BRONTEI am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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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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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with 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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Terror made me cruel.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTE