Wuthering Heights Quotes

“I love my murderer--but yours? How can I?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.'

'Because you are not fit to go there,' I answered. 'All sinners would be miserable in heaven.'

'But it is not for that. I dreamt once that I was there.'

'I tell you I won't hearken to your dreams, Miss Catherine! I'll go to bed,' I interrupted again.

She laughed, and held me down; for I made a motion to leave my chair.

'This is nothing,' cried she: 'I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I got Miss Catherine and myself to Thrushcross Grange: and, to my agreeable disappointment, she behaved infinitely better than I dared to expect. She seemed almost over-fond of Mr. Linton; and even to his sister, she showed plenty of affection. They were both very attentive to her comfort, certainly. It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. There were no mutual concessions: one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpse in every object by day - I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women - my own features - mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Are you possessed with a devil,' he pursued, savagely, 'to talk in that manner to me when you are dying? Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Y ahí es donde se puede ver la diferencia entre nuestros sentimientos: si él estuviera en mi lugar y yo en el suyo, aunque le aborreciera con un odio que convirtiera mi vida en hiél, nunca habría levantado la mano contra él. ¡Puedes poner cara de incredulidad si quieres! Yo nunca podría haberle apartado de ella, al menos mientras ella lo hubiera querido así. Mas en el momento en que perdiera su estima, ¡le habría arrancado el corazón y me habría bebido su sangre! Sin embargo, hasta entonces, y si no me crees es que no me conoces, hasta entonces, ¡preferiría morir con certeza antes que tocarle un solo pelo de la cabeza!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Nelly, I am Heathcliff!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“He didn't pray for Catherine's soul to haunt him. Time bought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. He recalled her memory with ardent, tender love, and hopeful aspiring to the better world; where he doubted not she was gone.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights