May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
EMILY BRONTELast 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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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You 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.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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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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