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 BRONTETerror made me cruel.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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 have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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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?
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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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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I 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.
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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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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTE