Wuthering Heights

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Quotes from Wuthering Heights

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"The dead shall rise again—yes, they shall rise again!"
Heathcliff
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"He cannot love me as he did before."
Cathy Linton
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"She was my life then."
Heathcliff Love
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"I am stronger than she; I can endure what she cannot."
Heathcliff Strength
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"I have not one word of comfort—you deserve none."
Nelly Dean Truth
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"Death cannot be far off; I feel like one who is about to enter the grave."
Catherine Earnshaw Death
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"He had always been the object of my secret admiration."
Catherine Earnshaw Love
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"The moment her regard ceased, I ceased."
Heathcliff
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"She was inconsistent—even perverse sometimes."
Nelly Dean
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"I seem strange to you because I am so unlike you."
Heathcliff
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"Vengeance is sweeter than love."
Heathcliff Power
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"I'll break their hearts by breaking my own."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"Whatever I do, he still looks at me as though I were his enemy."
Cathy Linton Fear
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"He's a human being!"
Catherine Earnshaw
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"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Catherine Earnshaw Freedom
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"He was the only one that held the secret of my happiness."
Catherine Earnshaw Love
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"You see me, don't you? That's enough."
Heathcliff Love
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"How strange to see you so long absent yet lingering in my heart."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"I shall not sleep to-night; I'll go with him as far as the park."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"Every Linton on the face of the earth might melt into nothing before I could consent to forsake you."
Cathy Linton Love
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"You teach me now how cruel you've been—cruel and false."
Cathy Linton Truth
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"Nay, nay, Isabella! Has not he made you a pretty mess already?"
Nelly Dean Wisdom
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"He always seems so ill-used!"
Catherine Earnshaw
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"Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!"
Edgar Linton Humor
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"He's as dark almost as if he came from the devil."
Nelly Dean
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"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
Nelly Dean Wisdom
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"I was a child; I had not sense to resist you."
Heathcliff Truth
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"A person who has not done one half his duty, if he's allowed to go on so!"
Nelly Dean
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Catherine Earnshaw Love