"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends, they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."

"But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest."

"Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us."

"You shall not leave me in that temper.I should be miserable all night, and I won't be miserable for you!"

"I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter - the Eternity they have entered - where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness."

"And I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then!...Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"

"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."

"She dried her tears, and they did smileTo see her cheeks' returning glow;Nor did discern how all the whileThat full heart throbbed to overflow.With that sweet look and lively tone,And bright eye shining all the day,They could not guess, at midnight loneHow she would weep the time away."

"Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels:Its wings are almost free - its home, its harbour found,Measuring the gulph, it stoops and dares the final bound,'Oh I dreadful is the check - intense the agony - When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see;When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again;The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain."

"He shall never know how I love him."

"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."

"The Old StoicRiches I hold in light esteem, And Love I laugh to scorn; And lust of fame was but a dream, That vanished with the morn:And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!'Yes, as my swift days near their goal:'Tis all that I implore; In life and death a chainless soul, With courage to endure."

"It was nothing less than murder, in her eyes."

"I'll walk, but not in old heroic traces,And not in paths of high morality,And not among the half-distinguished faces,The clouded forms of long-past history.I'll walk where my own nature would be leading:It vexes me to choose another guide:Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side."

"The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one."

"When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!"

"I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal."

"No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk."

"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave."

"I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies."

"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day."

"I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it."

"Come in! come in !' he sobbed.'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last!"

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide."

"I'll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!"

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."

"All sinners would be miserable in heaven."

"However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery."

"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."

"I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire."

"She burned too bright for this world."

"He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!"

"In every cloud, in every tree " filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women " my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!"

"Good words,' I replied. 'But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear."

"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

"And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain;Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,How could I seek the empty world again?"

"THEY are afraid of nothing,' I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they would brave Satan and all his legions."

"He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul."

"It's no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,' she muttered."

"You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying."