Emily Brontë quotes
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.
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts... and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.