The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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Terror made me cruel.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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She burned too bright for this world.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
EMILY BRONTE







