He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
EMILY BRONTEI 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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 heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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