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!
EMILY BRONTEI cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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