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?
EMILY BRONTEThe night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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Terror made me cruel.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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No coward soul is mine.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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