She burned too bright for this world.
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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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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!
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Cold in the earth and the deeps now piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime’s all-serving wave?
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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 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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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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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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