You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
EMILY BRONTEIt is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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