Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that... - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong."

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"She burned too bright for this world."
"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."
"Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"
"Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me."
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