I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
EMILY BRONTEIf all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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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 shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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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.
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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Terror made me cruel.
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