My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
EMILY BRONTE
I 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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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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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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 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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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
EMILY BRONTE