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Wuthering Heights

One of English literature's classic masterpieces—a gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of

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“I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I are going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Leaving, Letting Go, Moving On

“May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Kill Me, Haunt Me, Love Me

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Thron, bleeding, Love, Loss

“I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: breathing, Forever Love, Romantic Quotes

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Love Forever, Most Romantic, Slave To You

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Heart and Love, Love, Relationships

“She burned too bright for this world.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Burnt, bright, Light

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have no power to feel for him.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Heartbreak, Love And Loss, Heartbroken

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, True Love, Soul Mates, Souls

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Hard Work, Goals, laziness

“I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Tired, Tired Of Being Tired, Enclosed, Breaking Free, Craving Escape

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating