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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

I have to remind myself to breathe
almost to remind my heart to beat! — Emily Bronte

Some say once a word is said it's dead. I say it just begins to live that day. — 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 reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer. — 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

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

No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere ... — Emily Bronte

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world! — 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

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

I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty! — Emily Bronte

Terror made me cruel . . . — Emily Bronte

Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar stairs with vexatious phlegm. — Emily Bronte

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives. — Emily Bronte

In secret pleasure - secret tears
This changeful life has slipped away — Emily Bronte

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us. — 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

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous — 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

It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine. — 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

I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs ... Perhaps I am an exception. — 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

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him? — 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

You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself! — 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

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. — Emily Bronte

I'll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please! — 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 from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day. — Emily Bronte

And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference? — Emily Bronte

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it. — 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

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. — 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

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

You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed. — Emily Bronte

Mr. Heathcliff, you're a cruel man, but you're not a fiend; and you won't, from mere malice, destroy, irrevocably, all my happiness. — Emily Bronte