Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
EMILY BRONTEHow cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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