I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
EMILY BRONTEThat 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.
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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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