"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."
"Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being."
"I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free."
"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."
"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."