Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
EMILY BRONTETreachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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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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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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