Cathy Linton

"Nelly, if you are not going to fight for my right, then nobody will."

"I'm exhausted with my internal conflict."

"There is no excuse for my actions, yet I acted without thought for consequence."

"Forgive me, Nelly, for I have been very wicked."

"I deserve this. I deserve this punishment."

"How strange to think what life might have been!"

"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees."

"Being alone, whatever our station, diminishes the soul."

"I have endured very well on the whole, since you left."

"Whatever becomes of me, Linton shall be educated."

"How could they help but wither beneath such influence?"

"I was a strange child, Nelly, was I not?"

"The dead must have rest, surely."

"I wish I had not been so wicked."

"Let me go, Nelly. Let me rest."

"I have been very wrong in my conduct toward him."

"How different everything might have been!"

"I see now what I could not see before."

"Whatever happens, I am content to wait."

"The world could not please me – there is no pleasure in existing without him."

"Nelly, if you will not help me, then I must help myself."

"I wonder how anyone can endure to live – truly live – without love."

"You lie! You are not for me! You are not for any earthly home!"

"He's more a human being than you are."

"He's excessively fond of books, is he not?"

"I am strong and am glad—I should be ashamed to feel otherwise."

"I'm not ordered to be anyone's slave."

"I'm stronger than she was."

"I wish I were miles away."

"I am not wont to resist him."