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Wuthering Heights quotes
15 quotes from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #768 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
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
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.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XIV
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!
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XVI
He has extinguished my love effectually, and so I’m at my ease.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XVII
Last night I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XXXIV
It is far from being the case: I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XXXIII