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.
EMILY BRONTEI gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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There 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.
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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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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
EMILY BRONTE