He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
EMILY BRONTEThe clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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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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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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