I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
EMILY BRONTEI have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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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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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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