Quotes By Person: Emily Brontë

“'You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. WHY did you despise me? WHY did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - then what RIGHT had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? 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 worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - oh, God! would YOU like to live with your soul in the grave?'”

-Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

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“If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.”

-Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

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“My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliffe's miseries, and I watched and felt from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. 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. I should not be seen part of it. My love for Linton is like foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes trees. My love for Heathcliffe resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliffe! He's always, always in my mind: not 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-”

-Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

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