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Emily Brontë quotes
10 quotes from 1 of Emily Brontë’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
Wuthering Heights
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.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter IX
Nelly, I am Heathcliff!
— Spoken by a character · Chapter IX
Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad!
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XVI
And so do I. 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.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter IX
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XVI
I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XV
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.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter IX
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter IX
“Let me in—let me in!”
— Spoken by a character · Chapter III
“No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,” he returned.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter VII