If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
EMILY BRONTEHe was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Terror made me cruel.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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