I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free. - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."

"Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me."

"I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter--the Eternity they have entered--where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness."

"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."