My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
EMILY BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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 have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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