If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
EMILY BRONTEHeaven 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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 never told my love vocally still.
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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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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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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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Terror made me cruel.
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