It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
EMILY BRONTEI can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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No coward soul is mine.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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.
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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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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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