In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
EMILY BRONTEHow cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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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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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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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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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 have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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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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