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“Surely she, too, had harbored the blissful hope of using her body as a poster for her soul.”

“The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”

“The first betrayal is irreparable. It calls forth a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which take us farther and farther away from the point of our original betrayal.”

This book is already excellent.

“You were a memory, not a goal” bruh.

It’s typical fluff but that’s what I’m in the mood for

“The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!”

I sorely underestimated the amount of abuse this book depicts

“More of the self-absorbed morose mess of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult” YIKES

“It is utterly impossible I can ever be revenged, and therefore I cannot forgive him.”

“You said I killed you - haunt me, then!”

“I like her too well, my dear Heathcliff, to let you absolutely seize and devour her up.”
“And I like her too ill to attempt it”

Oh my god this is so messy

As another reviewer noted, it is even more impressive as a work of literature considering that it was written before the advent of psychology. Brontë seriously understands human psychology!! Wow.

“A quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers. They were too much absorbed in their mutual joy to suffer embarrassment”

It’s a good book.