Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
EMILY BRONTEYou must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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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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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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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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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Terror made me cruel.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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