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.
EMILY BRONTEYou know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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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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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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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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