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"she has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years—incessantly—remorselessly—till yesternight; and yesternight I was tranquil. I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek frozen against hers.’

‘And if she had been dissolved into earth, or worse, what would you have dreamt of then?’ I said.

‘Of dissolving with her, and being more happy still!’ he answered"

"On an afternoon in October, or the beginning of November—a fresh watery afternoon, when the turf and paths were rustling with moist, withered leaves, and the cold, blue sky was half hidden by clouds—dark grey streamers, rapidly mounting from the west, and boding abundant rain"

This could be depicting exactly the same day I am reading it in.

"though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him... I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!”

"Tell her what Heathcliff is - an unreclaimed creature, without refinement - without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. I'd as soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day as recommend you to bestow your heart on him!"

"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."

Seventh time reading this book and this page still makes me sob!

“'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!”

"Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling. 'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed, in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there, at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind, blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few, stunted firs at the end of the house"

"As to what I want from you, it's nothing as extravagant as the sea, though it feels just as vast and impossible."

"You're a lamb in the lion's den, child. You're surviving. Isn't that enough?"

I felt this way during my first reading as well, but there is something so intense and compulsively readable about this series.

"I am a hurricane barely contained in skin."

"I would have thought you fond of conflict."
"The aftermath breeds art," he says. "But war makes believers out of cynics. Sycophants desperate for salvation, everyone suddenly clinging to their souls"

"time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because vision weakens, and voices whither, and talent fades... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end," he says, "everyone wants to be remembered."

"Humans are capable of such wondrous things. Of cruelty and war, but also art and invention."

The shadow who smiled and the girl who smiled back

"Who are you?" he asks.
"I am the one who sees kindling and coaxes it to flame. The nurturer of all human potential."
He stares at the stranger, still dry despite the storm, a devil's beauty in a familiar face

"This is how you live forever.
Here is one day, and here is the next, and the next, and you take what you can, savor every stolen second, cling to every moment, until it's gone."

"he is a hated thing, but a hated thing is still something. The only thing she has."

"she longs for the mornings, but she settles for the nights, and if it cannot be love, well, then, at least it is not lonely."

THIS BOOK IS BREAKING MY HEART!!!

"My name is Adeline LaRue, she tells herself. My father taught me how to be a dreamer, and my mother taught me how to be a wife, and Estele taught me how to speak to gods."

I wish I could go back and tell myself not to be intimated by this chunky sci-fi boi, as he is not scary at all! Too soon to declare this a new favourite??

Orange World - 4/5 stars

The Gondoliers - 3.5/5 stars

Black Corfu - 4/5 stars

The Tornado Auction - 4/5 stars

Madame Bovary's Greyhound - 3.5/5 stars

Bog Girl: A Romance - 4/5 stars

The Bad Graft - 3.75/5 stars

The Prospectors - 4.5/5 stars

"you asked me once what I saw among the stars. I told you I saw questions. Now I see you. I see us."