It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
EMILY BRONTEMy love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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I 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.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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