Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
EMILY BRONTEBy this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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Terror made me cruel.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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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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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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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 clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
EMILY BRONTE