I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
EMILY BRONTESweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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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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