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I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
— Bill Bryson
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
— Emily Bronte
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
Take my books away, and I should be desperate!
— Emily Bronte
We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
— Emily Bronte
Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.
— Emily Bronte
Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort - you deserve this. You have killed yourself.
— Emily Bronte
But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration for it, if only her precious person were secure from injury!
— Emily Bronte
I am Heathcliff!
— Emily Bronte
Come in! come in !' he sobbed.
'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last! — Emily Bronte
'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last! — Emily Bronte
He fixed his eye on me longer than I cared to return the stare, for fear I might be tempted either to box his ears, or render my hilarity audible.
— Emily Bronte
He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.
— Emily Bronte
Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?
— Emily Bronte
Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
— Emily Bronte
I mun hev' my wage, and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I'd sarved fur sixty year;
— Emily Bronte
I was weeping as much for him as her: we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.
— Emily Bronte
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
— Emily Bronte
The world is surely not worth living now, is it?
— Emily Bronte
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.
— Emily Bronte
Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is.
— Charlotte Bronte
You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.
— Emily Bronte
The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features.
— Emily Bronte
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!
— Emily Bronte
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
— Emily Bronte
Shall Earth no more inspire thee,
Thou lonely dreamer now? — Emily Bronte
Thou lonely dreamer now? — Emily Bronte
Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
— Emily Bronte
The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him ...
— Emily Bronte
However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.
— Emily Bronte
Terror made me cruel . . .
— Emily Bronte
I went about my house hold duties, convinced that the Grange had but one sensible soul in its walls, and that lodged in my body.
— Emily Bronte
He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.
— Emily Bronte
Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!
— Emily Bronte
I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
— Emily Bronte
He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.
— Emily Bronte
It's a pity he cannot kill himself with drink.
— Emily Bronte
Incomparably beyond, and above us all! Whether still on earth or now in heaven her spirit is at home with God!
— Emily Bronte
I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I only do it, at last. I hope he will not die before I do!
— Emily Bronte
The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again — Emily Bronte
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again — Emily Bronte
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
— Emily Bronte
You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
— Emily Bronte
Oh! here we are the same as anywhere else, when you get to know us,' observed Mrs. Dean, somewhat puzzled at my speech.
— Emily Bronte
To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.
— Emily Bronte
I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;
— Emily Bronte
Wuthering being a significant, provincial adjective descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
— Emily Bronte
Together, they would brave satan and all his legions.
— Emily Bronte
He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
— Emily Bronte
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
I cannot live without my soul!
— Emily Bronte
It is a long fight, I wish it were over!
— Emily Bronte
Being repulsed continually hardened her,
— Emily Bronte
The whole world awake and wild with joy.
— Emily Bronte
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
— Emily Bronte
And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?
— Emily Bronte
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
— Emily Bronte
You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying ...
— Emily Bronte
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
— James A. Michener
It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years!
— Emily Bronte
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
— Emily Bronte
If I've done wrong, I'm dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won't upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!
— Emily Bronte
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
— Emily Bronte
But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.
— Emily Bronte
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
— Emily Bronte
Mama never told me I had a father.
— Emily Bronte
- sit down and take dinner with us - a guest that is safe from repeating his visit, can generally be made welcome ...
— Emily Bronte
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.
— Emily Bronte
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
— Emily Bronte
You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.
— Emily Bronte
I never told my love vocally still.
— Emily Bronte
You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?
— Emily Bronte
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
— Emily Bronte
The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
— Emily Bronte
I have a right to kiss her, if she chooses, and you have no right to object! I am not your husband, you needn't be jealous of me!
— Emily Bronte
He ... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break
chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen. — Emily Bronte
chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen. — Emily Bronte
You fight against that devil for love as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!
— Emily Bronte
For she is hard to guide any way but her own.
— Emily Bronte
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
— Emily Bronte
He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows
— Emily Bronte
I'd soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day as recommend you to bestow your heart on him!
— Emily Bronte