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 BRONTEThey forgot everything the minute they were together again.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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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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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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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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