Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
EMILY BRONTEHow cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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Terror made me cruel.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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