Cathy Linton

Character in Wuthering Heights From: Wuthering Heights

Catherine's daughter; spirited and articulate younger generation character

84 quotes

"You teach me now how cruel you've been—cruel and false."
Truth
"Every Linton on the face of the earth might melt into nothing before I could consent to forsake you."
Love
"Whatever I do, he still looks at me as though I were his enemy."
Fear
"He cannot love me as he did before."
"I am come home at last! Here is the wind blowing as if to blow the very roof off the house away!"
Nature
"I should like to be the wind that lashes you!"
"I wish I were a child again, irresponsible and innocent."
Hope
"I'm past it now. Circumstances have altered me into a person you would scarcely know me for."
Change
"I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you."
Love
"I cannot look down upon him."
Family
"How strange I felt in my new home!"
Change
"I will not yield to anybody's demand."
Strength
"My father is dead, I have no more protector."
Family
"I am afraid of him now."
Fear
"The wind blowing over the Heights."
Nature
"Every Linton on the face of the earth might melt into nothing before I would ask you to restore him!"
"No paradise like such liberty."
Freedom
"He's a human being, not an animal."
Kindness
"How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me."
Love
"It is crushing to be told you are shamefully wicked."
"He cannot be made happy; let me try to do no more."
"He's a human being; we all have the same heart!"
Kindness
"I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a conscience?"
"Some people might think it a strange thing for a girl to say, but it is true."
Truth