A collection of prompts from Wuthering Heights , by Emily Brontë. Adjust gender / pronouns / wording / etc. as needed.
❝ He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ❞
❝ 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. ❞
❝ Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! ❞
❝ I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free. ❞
❝ May you not rest as long as I am living. ❞
❝ You said I killed you--haunt me then. ❞
❝ The murdered do haunt their murderers. ❞
❝ Oh, God! It is unutterable! ❞
❝ 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 have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. ❞
❝ She burned too bright for this world. ❞
❝ Terror made me cruel. ❞
❝ What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? ❞
❝ He's always, always in my mind. ❞
❝ If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. ❞
❝ I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. ❞
❝ I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas. ❞
❝ You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. ❞
❝ Why did you despise me? ❞
❝ Why did you betray your own heart? ❞
❝ I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. ❞
❝ 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 - what right had you to leave me? ❞
❝ I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat! ❞
❝ It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. ❞
❝ It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands. ❞
❝ Honest people don't hide their deeds. ❞
❝ May she wake in torment! ❞
❝ She's a liar to the end! ❞
❝ You said you cared nothing for my sufferings! ❞
❝ Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth. ❞
❝ He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. ❞
❝ He shall never know I love him ❞
❝ 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. ❞
❝ You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence. ❞
❝ I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. ❞
❝ A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. ❞
❝ Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. ❞
❝ Had he been in my place and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. ❞
❝ You may look incredulous, if you please! ❞
❝ The moment her regard ceased, I could have torn his heart out, and drunk his blood! ❞
❝ If you don't believe me, you don't know me. ❞
❝ I'll be as dirty as I please. ❞
❝ The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her. ❞
❝ I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives. ❞
❝ The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. ❞
❝ I’m tired of being enclosed here. ❞
❝ I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be. ❞
❝ That proves I love him better than myself. ❞
❝ How cruel, your veins are full of ice water and mine are boiling. ❞
❝ Existence, after losing her, would be hell. ❞
❝ I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. ❞
❝ She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. ❞
❝ You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you. ❞
❝ How can she love in him what he has not? ❞
❝ Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous. ❞
❝ Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever. ❞
❝ Good words, but deeds must prove it also. ❞
❝ Remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear. ❞
❝ Why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? ❞
❝ Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change. ❞
❝ As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire. ❞
❝ It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing. ❞
❝ I never told my love vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears. ❞
❝ He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! ❞
❝ It would degrade me to marry him now. ❞
❝ Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me. ❞
❝ In secret pleasure — secret tears, this changeful life has slipped away ❞
❝ Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us. ❞
❝ I begin to fancy you don't like me. ❞
❝ I wish I could hold you 'till we were both dead. ❞
❝ I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? ❞
❝ Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? ❞
❝ Would you like to live with your soul in the grave? ❞
❝ I'm not going to act the lady among you. ❞
❝ You'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life, and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it. ❞
❝ Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. ❞
❝ Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. ❞
❝ Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him? ❞
❝ This lamb of yours threatens like a bull! ❞
❝ I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down. ❞
❝ I have neither a fear, nor a presentiment, nor a hope of death. ❞
❝ I could not help wishing we were all there safe together. ❞
❝ He’s not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man. ❞