Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
EMILY BRONTEI wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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