Terror made me cruel.
EMILY BRONTEHow cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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 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?
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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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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 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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