How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
EMILY BRONTEBut 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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 shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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