Quotes from Emily Bronte

They are afraid of nothing... Together they would brave Satan and all his legions.

He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid he could bequeath to guide her.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Så han kommer aldrig att få veta hur mycket jag älskar honom - inte för att han är vacker, Nelly, utan för att han är mera jag än jag själv är. Vad våra själar än är gjorda av så är de av samma slag, och Lintons själ liknar dem lika lite som en månstråle liknar blixten och frosten liknar elden.

Don't torture me till I'm as mad as yourself

It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intense anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge. Had it been dark, I dare say, he would have tried to remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps; but we witnessed his salvation; and I was presently below with my precious charge pressed to my heart. Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.

Shall earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? Since passion may not fire thee, Shall nature cease to bow?

He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.

It is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world.

Un om înÅ£elept trebuie s? se mulÅ£umeasc? doar cu propria-i tov?r??ie.

He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars. Winds take a pensive tone, and stars a tender fire, And visions rise, and change, that kill me with desire.

En un sitio así yo sería capaz hasta de creer en un amor eterno, y eso que he creído siempre imposible que una pasión dure más de un año.

E então a encarou de maneira tão detida que imaginei que a simples intensidade daquele olhar estivesse enchendo-lhe os olhos de lágrimas; mas a angústia as queimava antes que escorressem.

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

Se tutto il resto perisse e lui restasse, io continuerei a essere; e, se tutto il resto persistesse e lui venisse annientato, l'universo mi diverrebbe estraneo; non mi sembrerebbe di esserne parte.

For she is hard to guide any way but her own.

mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.

But, yet, even this tranquility Brings bitter, restless thoughts to me.

Ele ama e odeia, sempre às escondidas, e considera uma espécie de impertinência ser amado ou odiado de volta.

Enquanto falava, lançou em direção à menina um olhar estranho, de ódio – a não ser que tivesse um conjunto muito singular de músculos faciais que, diferente do que sucede às outras pessoas, não sabia interpretar a linguagem da alma.

I 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.

invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think--refuted more tangible proofs of convalescence, and stamped her as one doomed to decay.

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.

O God!  It is a long fight; I wish it were over!