That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
EMILY BRONTEIt is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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 gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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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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