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  • May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

    Long   May   Heathcliff  
    Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)
  • 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.

    Soul   Mind   Heathcliff  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.481, Penguin
  • If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.

    "Fictional character: Heathcliff". "Wuthering Heights", www.imdb.com. March 24, 1939.
  • My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

    Rocks   Delight   Littles  
    "Wuthering Heights".
  • I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.597, Penguin
  • I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?

    Children   Sorry   Past  
    "Wuthering Heights". Book by Emily Brontë, 1847.
  • I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

    Years   Names   Careers  
  • wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

    Slumber   Earth   Quiet  
    Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)
  • Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

    Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)
  • ...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

    Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.53, Penguin
  • The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

    World   Heathcliff   Lost  
    Emily Bronte (2011). “Wuthering Heights”, p.270, Penguin
  • 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.

    Love   Years   Classic  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.473, Penguin
  • It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.

    Party   Garden   Tree  
    Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.13, Pan Macmillan
  • He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.

    Pain   Thinking   Hands  
    Emily Bronte (2016). “Wuthering Heights”, p.68, My Ebook Publishing House
  • I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. 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.

    I Love Him   Men   Fire  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin
  • I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

    Crush   Pain   Energy  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.475, Penguin
  • 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.

    Home   Heart   Angel  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin
  • Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.

    Angel   Wrinkles   Doubt  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.408, Penguin
  • 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

    Fire   Soul   Lightning  
    Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)
  • He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.425, Penguin
  • The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

    Crush   Tyrants   Grind  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.447, Penguin
  • What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

    Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com
  • You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

  • I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

    "Wuthering Heights". Book by Emily Bronte, www.theguardian.com. December 1847.
  • I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

    Hard Work   Air   Digging  
    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.571, Penguin
  • 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.

    Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.72
  • I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.

  • I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

    Life   Soul   Heathcliff  
    Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)
  • My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.

    Time   Winter   Rocks  
  • I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

    Believe   Eight   Years  
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