Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
EMILY BRONTEA messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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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 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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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