I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
EMILY BRONTEYou have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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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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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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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
EMILY BRONTE