below are #50 quotes taken from the classic english novel wuthering heights, as spoken by the character catherine earnshaw. feel free to change pronouns as necessary.
“Why cannot you always be a good man?”
“I did not mean to laugh at you, I could not hinder myself.”
“What are you sulky for? It was only that you looked odd.”
“You should not have spoken to him! He was in a bad temper, and now you’ve spoilt your visit.”
“Well, don’t cry, you’re not killed.”
“Take yourself and your dusters off; when company are in the house, servants don’t commence scouring and cleaning in the room where they are!”
“I didn’t touch you, you lying creature!”
“You shall not leave me in that temper. I should be miserable all night, and I won’t be miserable for you!”
“Today, ___ has asked me to marry him, and I’ve given him an answer. Now, before I tell you whether it was a consent or denial, you tell me which it ought to have been.”
“He will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband.”
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 altogether. There now!”
“I should only pity him — hate him, perhaps, if he were ugly, and a clown.”
“In my soul and in my heart, I’m convinced I’m wrong!”
“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”
“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: I should not seem a part of it.”
“My great miseries in this world have been his miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself.”
“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.”
“The gate is open: he is somewhere out of hearing; for he would not reply, though I shouted at the top of the fold as loud as I could.”
“I know you didn’t like him. Yet, for my sake, you must be friends now.”
“I shall think it a dream to-morrow! I shall not be able to believe that I have seen, and touched, and spoken to you once more.”
“They are very much alike: they are spoiled children, and fancy the world was made for their accommodation; and though I humour both, I think a smart chastisement might improve them all the same.”
“I have such faith in his love, that I believe I might kill him, and he wouldn’t wish to retaliate.”
“He can’t be made morally worse than he is; and I stand between him and bodily harm.”
“Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I’d not only turn the other, but I’d ask pardon for provoking it; and, as a proof, I’ll go make my peace with ___ instantly. Good-night! I’m an angel!”
