1. “Honest people don’t hide their deeds.”
2. “Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
3. “ “Because you are not fit to go there,” I answered. “All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”
4. “In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood’s sense of superiority,”
5. “Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels grew so angry that they flung me out onto the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke to sob for joy.”
6. “She could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice and pensive expression: her anger was never furious; her love never fierce; it was deep and tender.”
7. “The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.”
8. “I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.”
9. “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!.”
10. “Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?”
11. “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.”
12. “her anger was never furious; her love never fierce: it was deep and tender.”
13. “No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall.”
14. “I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.”
15. “Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them.”
16. “Misery and death and all the evils that God and man could have ever done would never have patted us.”
17. “It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?.”
18. “If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.”
19. “I seek no revenge on you. That’s not the plan. The Tyrant grinds down his slaves, and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them.”
20. “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.”
21. “You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.”
22. “My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”
23. “Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”
24. “Half thinking, half dreaming, happier than words can express.”
25. “But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration for it, if only her precious person were secure from injury!”
26. “If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
27. “People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
28. “Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”
29. “You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style.”
30. “Existence, after losing her, would be hell.”
31. “‘Are you possessed with a devil,’ he pursued, savagely, ‘to talk in that manner to me when you are dying? Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me?‘”
32. “I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!.”
33. “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.”
34. “And we’ll see if one tree won’t grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!”
35. “As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
36. “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.”
37. “Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! . . . It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
38. “I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!.”
39. “And would it not be foolish to mourn a calamity above twenty years beforehand?”
40. “Don’t get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.”
41. “If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.””
42. “They forgot everything the minute they were together again.”
43. “What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”
44. “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!”
45. “I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own.”
46. “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.”
47. “I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
48. “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?”
49. “I’ll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!”
50. “They are afraid of nothing… Together they would brave Satan and all his legions.”
51. “You needn’t have touched me! I shall be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty.”
52. “My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! 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.”
53. “He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigor in the soil of his shallow cares!”
54. “He shall never know how I love him”
55. “you have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!”
56. “Do I want to live? . . . [W]ould you like to live with your soul in the grave?”
57. “He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”
58. “I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.”
59. “I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
60. “But I begin to fancy you don’t like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.”
61. “I’ve done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I’m too happy; and yet I’m not happy enough. My souls bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.”
62. “And wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
63. “It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy in proportion to the increase of pain.”
64. “Time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees.”
65. “Take my books away, and I should be desperate!”
66. “I tell you I have nearly attained MY heaven; and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncovered by me.”
67. “You loved me—then what right had you to leave me?”
68. “He’s such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.”
69. “It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
70. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”
71. “I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!”
72. “Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing on my lips.”
73. “May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.”
74. “What is that apathetic being doing?’ she demanded, pushing the thick entangled locks from her wasted face. ‘Has he fallen into a lethargy, or is he dead?”
75. “She burned too bright for this world.”
76. “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
77. “Forget your anger, for she’s hard to guide any way but her own.”
78. “Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous”
79. “I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”
80. “I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
81. “I’m now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
82. “He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.”
83. “Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever; your veins are full of ice water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance.”
84. “I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.”
85. “I’d be glad of a retaliation that wouldn’t recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.”
86. “How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.”
87. “her humour was a mere vane for constantly varying caprices.”
88. “You teach me now how cruel you’ve been—cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort.”
89. “Because you are not fit to go there,’ I answered. ‘All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”
90. “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
91. “You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!”
92. “everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.”
93. “Now here is the babyish trash.”
94. “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.”
95. “There were no signs of the ruffian he used to be. Only his eyes, I noticed, were still full of fire.”
96. “It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
97. “I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
98. “Don’t torture me till I’m as mad as yourself”
99. “You shouldn’t lie till ten. There’s the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. 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.”
100. “Two words would comprehend my future — death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.”
101. “Honest people don’t hide their deeds.”
102. “We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.”
103. “and who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?”
104. “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. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! 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.”
105. “Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.”
106. “The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
107. “I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”
108. “I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer.”
109. “Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.”
110. “The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him…”
111. “In my soul and in my heart, I’m convinced I’m wrong!”
112. “We’re dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us.”
113. “I listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
114. “In every cloud, in every tree-filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image!”- Wuthering Heights
115. “It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.”
116. “In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women – my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!”
117. “He shall never know I love him.”
118. “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!”
119. “No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk”
120. “I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
121. “Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.”
122. “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.”
123. “I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
124. “I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.”
125. “She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
126. “It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?”
127. “I’m now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
128. “It is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world.”
129. “By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.”
130. “It’s wrong to anticipate evil.”
131. “He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle, and dance in a glorious jubilee.”
132. “The whole world awake and wild with joy.”
133. “Nelly, I am Heathcliff! 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.”
134. “You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into…it is as much as you can expect from a poor man’s daughter.”
135. “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 lightning, or frost from fire.”
136. “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because 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 lightning, or frost from fire.”
137. “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.”
138. “I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”
139. “How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.”
140. “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. And this is one: I’m going to tell it—but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
141. “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.”
142. ″‘He’s not a human being,’ she retorted; ‘and he has no claim on my charity. I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death, and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.‘”
143. “She drove us all to distraction, but she had the sweetest smile and so no one could stay angry with her for long.”
