How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
EMILY BRONTEMay you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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 shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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