Wuthering Heights

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Quotes from Wuthering Heights

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"I want the feeling of myself again."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"I shall go mad if this continues."
Heathcliff
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"He does not know what it is to long for something he cannot have."
Nelly Dean Wisdom
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"I wish I were out of doors—I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"The idea of him suffering would not leave me."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"My greatest anxiety is leaving you in this place."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"She is the only woman in the world to me."
Heathcliff Love
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"Whatever he may pretend, his heart is as hard as a stone."
Nelly Dean
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"His eyes are constantly bent on the ground."
Nelly Dean
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"How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me."
Cathy Linton Love
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"I am not angry, only sorry to have lost you."
Heathcliff
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"The bird is caught—let me go."
Catherine Earnshaw Freedom
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"My happiness was complete if I could save my master."
Nelly Dean Happiness
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"You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same way."
Heathcliff
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"They have treated me cruelly, and I am resolved to show them what cruelty is."
Heathcliff Power
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"I shall not rest till I've destroyed you."
Heathcliff
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"He's a human being, not an animal."
Cathy Linton Kindness
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"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Heathcliff Love
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"You teach me now how cruel you've been—cruel and false."
Catherine Earnshaw Truth
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"Vain are all my efforts; misery alone is the result."
Heathcliff
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"I have not broken your heart—you have broken it."
Heathcliff Relationships
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"He shall never know how I love him."
Catherine Earnshaw Love
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"Whatever our souls are made of, the his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning."
Catherine Earnshaw Love
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"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
Nelly Dean Wisdom
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"I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you."
Catherine Earnshaw Philosophy
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"He's always been a secret and a shame to everyone."
Nelly Dean
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"I see now you think I should be miserable without him."
Catherine Earnshaw Happiness
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"My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning."
Catherine Earnshaw Relationships
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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 wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Catherine Earnshaw Freedom