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Quotes About Conflict

Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever: your veins are full of ice-water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance.
~ Emily Bronte
It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered.  'Kiss me again; and don't let me see your eyes!  I forgive what you have done to me.  I love my murderer—but yours!  How can I?
~ Emily Bronte
Se acercó y le alargó la mano. Hareton se puso sombrío como una nube de tormenta, apretó los puños y miró al suelo. Pero ella comprendió que aquello no era odio, sino testarudez, y, después de un instante de indecisión, se inclinó hacia él y le besó en la mejilla. Enseguida, se volvió a la ventana.
~ Emily Bronte
İşte Edgar'la hislerimiz aras?ndaki fark bu. Åžayet Edgar'?n yerinde olsayd?m, ondan hayat?m? zehir eden bir kinle nefret etmeme raÄŸmen gene de ona elimi kald?rmazd?m. Sen istediÄŸin kadar inanma bana! Catherine istediÄŸi sürece, kendisini onun dostluÄŸundan yoksun b?rakmazd?m. Ne zaman ki Catherine ona kar?? ilgisini yitirir, iÅŸte o zaman onun kalbini söker, kan?n? içerdim!
~ Emily Bronte
All seems smooth and easy: where is the obstacle?' ' Here! and here! ' replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and the other on her breast, 'in whichever place the soul lives.
~ Emily Bronte
Me pregunte, asombrado, como habia quien pudiera atribuir un descanso atormentaddo a los que duermen en la serenidad de aquella tierra tan tranquila
~ Emily Bronte
She was much too fond of Heathcliff. The greatest punishment we would invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account.
~ Emily Bronte
Here! and here! replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and another on her breast. In whichever place the soul lives — in my soul and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong!
~ Emily Bronte
I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours ! How can I?
~ Emily Bronte
Sí. Qué tontería. ¡Como si me importara! —repuso Catherine irritada—¿Y qué me quieres decir con eso? —Quiero que veas que a mí sí me importa. —dijo Heathcliff.
~ Emily Bronte
Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I
~ Emily Bronte
Because, in my heart, I'm convinced that I'm wrong.
~ Emily Bronte
By God!  Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!
~ Emily Bronte
but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
~ Emily Bronte
Mrs. Heathcliff is my daughter-in-law,' said Heathcliff, corroborating my surmise.  He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction: a look of hatred;
~ Emily Bronte
Mislila sam da me svi ipak vole, premda se ovdje svi me?usobno mrze i preziru. I svi su se u nekoliko sati pretvorili u neprijatelje. Jesu, potpuno sam sigurna u to, svi ovdje. Kako li je teško suo?iti se sa smr?u, okružen njihovim hladnim licima!
~ Emily Bronte
She, supposing Edgar could not see her, snatched the cloth from my hand, and pinched me, with a prolonged wrench, very spitefully on the arm.  I've said I did not love her, and rather relished mortifying her vanity now and then: besides, she hurt me extremely; so I started up from my knees, and screamed out, 'Oh, Miss, that's a nasty trick!  You have no right to nip me, and I'm not going to bear it.
~ Emily Bronte
His weakness was the only time when I could taste the delight of paying wrong for wrong.
~ Emily Bronte
Will you give up Heathcliff hereafter, or will you give up me? It is impossible for you to be my friend and his at the same time; and I absolutely require to know which you choose.
~ Emily Bronte
For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned.
~ Emily Bronte
If you strike me, Hareton will strike you! So you may as well sit down.
~ Emily Bronte
And hark you, Heathcliff! clear you too quite from my reach and hearing.  I wouldn't murder you to-night; unless, perhaps, I set the house on fire: but that's as my fancy goes.
~ Emily Bronte
Lako vam je popustiti njihovim prolaznim hirovima sve dok se oni svojski trude da predvide sve vaše želje. Me?utim, može se naposljetku dogoditi da se posva?ate oko ne?ega što je jednako važno za obje strane, pa ?e se tada oni, koje nazivate slabima, pokazati nepopustljivima kao i vi.
~ Emily Bronte
The two new friends established themselves in the house during his absence; where I heard Hareton sternly check his cousin, on her offering a revelation of her father-in-law's conduct to his father. He said he wouldn't suffer a word to be uttered in his disparagement: if he were the devil, it didn't signify; he would stand by him; and he'd rather she would abuse himself, as she used to, than begin on Mr. Heathcliff.
~ Emily Bronte