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“it is hard to forgive? and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands, he answered. kids me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! i forgive what you have done to me. i love my murderer — but yours! how can i?”

“my love for linton is like the foliage of woods. time will change it, i’m well aware, as winter changed the trees — my love for heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath — a slice of little visible delight, but necessary. i am heathcliff — he’s always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself…”

“he shall never know how i love him; and that, not because he’s handsome…but because he’s more myself than i am. whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same…”

reread time!!! my fav classic of ALL TIME! i’m just trying to remember this masterpiece before the movie ruins it

2 years later and finally doing my reread eeekkkk

“it reminded me that when we know about suffering, when we are proximal to it, we are capable of extraordinary generosity. we can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.”

“it was as if the cure did not exist—because the disease was where the cure was not, and the cure was where the disease was not.”

“people who are treated as less than fully human by the social order are more susceptible to tuberculosis. but it’s not because of their moral codes or choices or genetics; it’s because they are treated as less than fully human by the social order.”

“nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”

why is she calling her best friends boyfriend instead of HER HUSBANDD

not really loving this so far…..

“think only of the past as it remembrance gives you pleasure.”

“had elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.”

“i do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. you may ask questions, which i shall not choose to answer.”

“but how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.”

“she began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man, who, in deposition and talents, would most suit her…it was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved, and from his judgement, info, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefits of greater importance”