Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 July 1818
CityWest Yorkshire, England
would-be slave heathcliff
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
love life dream
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.
inspirational dream ever-after
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
tyrants return torment
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
would-be walks my-own
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
enemy violence resorts
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
love romantic anniversary
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
work effort silence
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
fall autumn tree
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
love years classic
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.
love mine scholars-and-scholarship souls whatever
He is more myself than I am. Whatever our two souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
angel wrinkles doubt
Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
believe cannot drive form ghosts haunt leave wandered
You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
love mind cold-mountain
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.