"How strange to see you so long absent yet lingering in my heart."
"He was the only one that held the secret of my happiness."
Love
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Freedom
"He's a human being!"
"I'll break their hearts by breaking my own."
"He had always been the object of my secret admiration."
Love
"Death cannot be far off; I feel like one who is about to enter the grave."
Death
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Love
"I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind."
Love
"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."
Love
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Freedom
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, we're the same."
Relationships
"I have dreamed a dream, but now that dream has gone from me."
Dreams
"Nelly, you are not my friend—you're my enemy!"
Relationships
"I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there."
Death
"He cannot accuse me of having done anything to forfeit his regard."
Truth
"My life has been a series of contradictions."
Life
"You speak as if you had a right to claim me."
Freedom
"I cannot love and be wise."
Love
"I know I'm doing wrong—I know it as well as you do."
Truth
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Love
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, we're the same."
Relationships
"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water."
Dreams
"He's more myself than I am. I am he."
"I wish I could hold you till we were both dead!"
Love
"I would have died then; it would not have been anguish to die then."
Death
"I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me."
Relationships
"I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."
Philosophy
"He shall know how I love him."
Love
"What you touch at present you may have; but my hand is as heavy as lead to pull you down with, into my own grave."
Love