They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
EMILY BRONTEYou’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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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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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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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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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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 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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