I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
EMILY BRONTEHe’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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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.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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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 have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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 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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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