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Emily Brontë

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She needs to go to jail, for her own punishment and to deter others.
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She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart y...
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I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and ...
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with ...
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but ...
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I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in the...
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I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existe...
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He comes with western winds, with evening's
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With that clear dusk of heave...
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But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy, EMILY BRONTë
How clear she shines ! How quietly
I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and ear...
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What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
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Hope Was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would te...
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The old church tower and garden wall
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And dreary winds forebodin...
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Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn,
And lust of fame was but a dream...
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He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself th...
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The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired, tired of being enclosed ...
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And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I mu...
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My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter ...
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly throu...
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You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt f...
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The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorn...
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Honest people don't hide their deeds.
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I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!
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And the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every wor...
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If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
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She dried her tears, and they did smile
To see her cheeks’ returning glow;
Nor did disce...
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their result...
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The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I a...
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It's wrong to anticipate evil.
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To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.
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I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!
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At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost...
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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I love my murderer--but yours? How can I?
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He shall never know how I love him
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.
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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promi...
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Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more yo...
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Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;
My outward sense is gone, my inward ess...
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosi...
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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...
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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor...
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...
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I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge...
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No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
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I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b...
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The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...
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But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
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I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...
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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
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Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga...
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I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...
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I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
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Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...
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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
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We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the gr...
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an...
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I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
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Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
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Reader, I married him.
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If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
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No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."

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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- ...
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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...
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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
ANNE BRONTë
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when ...
ANNE BRONTë
It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it ...
ANNE BRONTë
I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
The word book acted as a transient stimulus
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ...
ANNE BRONTë
You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take...
ANNE BRONTë
Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Evening Solace

The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in othe...
ANNE BRONTë
So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
. . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...
ANNE BRONTë
Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ...
ANNE BRONTë
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our o...
ANNE BRONTë
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charm...
ANNE BRONTë
I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I am no bird, no net ensnares me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë