Quotes from Emily Bronte

That brute of a lad has warmed me nicely. Next time, Master Edgar, take the law into your own fists it will give you an appetite!

I was weeping as much for him as her; we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.

I'd soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day as recommend you to bestow your heart on him!

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad!

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

Their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw.

An unfeeling child,'' I thought to myself, 'how lightly she dismisses her old playmate's troubles. I could not have imagined her to be so selfish.'' She lifted a mouthful to her lips; then, set it down again: her cheeks flushed, and the tears gushed over them. She slipped her fork to the floor, and hastily dived under the cloth to conceal her emotion.

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

Se tudo o mais perecesse e ele ficasse, eu continuaria, mesmo assim, a existir; e, se tudo o mais ficasse e ele fosse aniquilado, o universo se tornaria para mim uma vastidão desconhecida, a que eu não teria a sensação de pertencer.

One or two is early enough for a person who lies till ten.

might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the

Não sei como explicar mas certamente que tu e todos têm a noção de que existe, ou deveria existir, um outro eu para além de nós próprios. Para que serviria eu ter sido criada se apenas me resumisse a isto?

J'ai rêvé que je dormais de mon dernier sommeil à côté d'elle, mon cÅ"ur immobile contre le sien, ma joue glacée contre la sienne

He got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears.  '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!

I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me...

Esta falta de resolución es, tal vez, lo que la hace inolvidable.

Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering—

Como muchos después de ella, ante la incomodidad generada por Cumbres borrascosas, optó por refugiarse en el mito.

En lugar de reconocer la sofisticación intelectual de Emily, Charlotte la presentaba como una sencilla chica de campo, nada «culta», que había acabado escribiendo un libro desconcertante, más por ingenua que por versada.

Sin embargo, es incapaz de aceptar a Emily como una artista adulta y consciente, dueña de su propia creación.

The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her! Well, Hareton's aspect was the ghost of my immortal love; of my wild endevours to hold my right ; my degradation, my pride, my hapiness, and my anguish-

I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Instead of finding her outside, I heard her voice within. The little monkey had crept by the skylight of one garret, along the roof, into the skylight of the other, and it was with the utmost difficulty I could coax her out again. When she did come, Heathcliff came with her;

I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!