Quotes from Emily Bronte

What vain weather-cocks we are!

My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself.

This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. 

It is so strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!

Heathcliff is more myself than I am.

Well, say I promise I won't speak: but that does not bind me not to laugh at him!

If I've done wrong, I'm dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won't upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!

You fight against that devil, for love, as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!

Silence! said the ruffian. To the devil with your clamour!

You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan would have parted us, you, of your own will did it.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.  Nelly, I am Heathcliff!  He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.  So don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable; and—

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