You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
EMILY BRONTEIt is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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No coward soul is mine.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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If 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.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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