That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
EMILY BRONTEBut 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Terror made me cruel.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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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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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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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’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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