Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
EMILY BRONTEI’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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She burned too bright for this world.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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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 understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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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