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.
EMILY BRONTEI 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.
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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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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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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’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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