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“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“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 altogether.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the...” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I have to remind myself to breathe—almost to remind my heart to beat!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“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” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“All sinners would be miserable in heaven.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I was only going to say that 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...” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“A person who has not done one-half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“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.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not...” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“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” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“He's not a rough diamond—a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“You loved me—then what right had you to leave me?” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Terror made me cruel” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever: your veins are full of ice-water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“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?” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Two words would comprehend my future—death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I am too idle to destroy for nothing.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Though provided with a large library, I'm frequently very dull at the Grange; take my books away, and I should be desperate!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I shall be as dirty as I please: and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“If she desired to go, she might: the nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Sit down and take your dinner with us; a guest that is safe from repeating his visit can generally be made welcome.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“It's wrong to anticipate evil.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Had I been born where laws are less strict and tastes less dainty, I should treat myself to a slow vivisection of those two, as an evening's amusement.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Say you forgive me, Hareton, do. You can make me so happy by speaking that little word. ” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“You're too young to rest always contented, living by yourself” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“In winter nothing more dreary, in summer nothing more divine, than those glens shut in by hills, and those bluff, bold swells of heath. ” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“You are one of those things that are ever found when least wanted, and when you are wanted, never!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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