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“I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur – and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves”
― Emily Dickinson’s Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland
― Emily Dickinson’s Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland
“Incomparably beyond, and above us all! Whether still on earth or now in heaven her spirit is at home with God!”
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“They lifted their eyes together, to encounter Mr. Heathcliff: perhaps you have never remarked that their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse”
― Sister Carrie
― Sister Carrie
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