That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of 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 will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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