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?
EMILY BRONTEMy love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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I never told my love vocally still.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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Terror made me cruel.
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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 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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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