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!
EMILY BRONTEThere is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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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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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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She burned too bright for this world.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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