Wuthering heights
❦I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
❦He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightening, or frost from fire.
❦My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
❦It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
❦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 breathe in mine.
❦I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.
❦If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
❦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 for a single day
❦The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
❦Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
❦Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
❦I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
❦And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!... Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you.
