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Emily Bronte's Gothic Fiction Novel

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Wuthering Heights

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  • "Well, if I cannot keep Heathcliff for my friend--if Edgar will be mean and jealous, I'll try to break their hearts by breaking my own. That will be a prompt way of finishing all, when I am pushed to extremity!"
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 11
  • "It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?"
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 14
  • "That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul."
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 15
  • "Kiss me again, but don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?"
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 15
  • "'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! The murdered DO haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts HAVE wandered on earth. 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 CANNOT live without my life! I CANNOT live without my soul!'"
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 16
  • "'I'll be very kind to him, you needn't fear,' he said, laughing. 'Only nobody else must be kind to him: I'm jealous of monopolising his affection."
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 20
  • "Besides, he's MINE, and I want the triumph of seeing MY descendant fairly lord of their estates; my child hiring their children to till their fathers' lands for wages. That is the sole consideration which can make me endure the whelp: I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives! But that consideration is sufficient: he's as safe with me, and shall be tended as carefully as your master tends his own."
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 20
  • "But there's this difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver."
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 21
  • "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..."
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 24
  • "He'll never let his friends be at ease, and he'll never be at ease himself!"
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 24
  • "Catherine's face was just like the landscape--shadows and sunshine flitting over it in rapid succession; but the shadows rested longer, and the sunshine was more transient..."
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 27
  • "I'm glad, for I shall be master of the Grange after him--and Catherine always spoke of it as her house. It isn't hers! It's mine: papa says everything she has is mine. All her nice books are mine; she offered to give me them, and pretty birds, and her pony Minny, if I would get the key of her room, and let her out; but I told her she had nothing to give, they were all, all mine."
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 28
  • "You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!"
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 30
  • "I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing."
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 33
  • "Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!"
    - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Ch. 34

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