It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
EMILY BRONTETerror 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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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’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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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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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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No coward soul is mine.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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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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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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