Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
EMILY BRONTEI wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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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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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTE







