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!
EMILY BRONTENonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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 have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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