Favourite Quotes:
"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 should not seem a part of it...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."
"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees — my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath — a source of little visible delight, but necessary."
"You loved me--then what right had you to leave me? What right--answer me--for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart--you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine"
~Wuthering Heights~
"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
"These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume"
"Come gentle night,; come, loving, black-brow'd night, give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night"
"There she lies, flower as she was."
"O my love my wife death that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty"
~Romeo and Juliet~
"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken;"
"That thou hast her, it is not all my grief, and yet it may be said, I lov'd her dearly;"
~Shakespeare's sonnnets~
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony and half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. ... I have loved none but you." ~Persuasion~
"The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe." ~Eragon~
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.” ~By the river Piedra I sat down and wept, Paulo Coelho~
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