Wuthering Heights

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Quotes from Wuthering Heights

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"I have a strong faith in ghosts"
Nelly Dean Faith
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"You have bewitched me, body and soul"
Heathcliff Love
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"I fear I have lost hope, and the will to live"
Catherine Earnshaw Hope
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"Twenty times a day I covet death"
Heathcliff Death
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"I've forgotten to eat my meals and slept"
Heathcliff
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"The company of a ghost and a phantom is not preferable to solitude"
Nelly Dean Solitude
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"Vengeance will take my life—but it cannot kill my love"
Heathcliff Love
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"I'll be content, if I have his forgiveness before I die"
Nelly Dean
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"Misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us"
Heathcliff Love
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"You do not blame me, then, for refusing that sacrifice?"
Catherine Earnshaw Love
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"They have not yet forgotten that their chief is absent nearly two hours since dinner time"
Nelly Dean Family
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"He shall have it then"
Heathcliff
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"Honest people don't hide their deeds"
Nelly Dean Truth
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"Oh, I'll pay Hindley back—not with money but with my own suffering"
Heathcliff
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"One might have thought the lad was possessed of something diabolical at that period"
Nelly Dean Fear
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"You see, Mr. Lockwood, in this world of ours there is no such thing as a free gift"
Nelly Dean Truth
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"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas"
Catherine Earnshaw Dreams
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"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"
Catherine Earnshaw Love
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"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"
Catherine Earnshaw Love
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"I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind"
Catherine Earnshaw
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"
Catherine Earnshaw Love
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"You do not deserve to be happy, and you shall never be happy again."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"I will show you the difference between us."
Heathcliff Power
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"He's unreclaimed creature without refinement—without cultivation."
Nelly Dean Education
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"I shall be a broken hearted woman."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"The greatest punishment for our wrongs is often brought by ourselves."
Nelly Dean Justice
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"He cannot be made happy; let me try to do no more."
Cathy Linton
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"It is crushing to be told you are shamefully wicked."
Cathy Linton
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"They forgot me entirely, and forgot with me the existence of their childhood enmity."
Nelly Dean Time
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"Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy?"
Heathcliff