“Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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