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Harry, said Basil,looking him straight in the face, every portrait that is painted with a feeling is a portrait of the artist,not of the sitter.The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown it in the secret of my own soul.

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are!……”

“Catherine’s face was just like the landscape — shadows and sunshine flitting over it in rapid succession; but the shadows rested longer, and the sunshine was more transient; and her poor little heart reproached itself for even that passing forgetfulness of its cares.”

“One was marked C., and the other H.; I wished to have the C., because that stood for Catherine, and the H. might be for Heathcliff, his name.”

I noticed young Cathy thinks a lot about death and people dying before her

“I care for nothing in comparison with papa.
And I’ll never- never- oh, never, while I have my senses, do an act or say a word to vex him. I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.”

“When his ship struck, the Captain abandoned his post…………,”

“I’d be glad of a retaliation that wouldn’t recoil on myself, but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both and; they sound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”

“May she wake in torment!…….”
Haunt me then!…..

My god…… ouch

“You suppose she has nearly forgotten me?……”

Dam this whole paragraph 😭 had my jar on floor and for him to say all of this in front of Isabella

“If you have not courage to attack him, make an apology………”

“Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bill……….”
Dayum 😭

This hurts

Dayum..

Oh yeah dis is getting sad

Am I ready to get my heart broken? She’s starting to be mean to him this is sadddd

The book is very nicely written so far. It’s a hard read, but I’m unstoppable with Google on hand

I’m excited to see where the story goes

“And then, very slowly, as he walked, he tilted his head back in the rain, just for a few moments, and opened his mouth…”

I wonder what the orange salamander on his badge represents

He did not want natural outside light but rather spark a manmade one.

“He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

“They walked the rest of the way in silence, her thoughtful, his a kind of clenching and uncomfortable silence in which he shot her accusing glances.”

“He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact.”

“ he believed that he was right in saying that the lower animals on animal farm did more work and received less food than any animals in the county. indeed, he and his fellow-visitors today had to observed many features which they intended to introduce on their own farms immediately.”

“All animals are equal
but some animals are more equal than others”

these gaslighting mother fuckers

“So that, what with the songs, the processions, Squealer’s lists of figures, the thunder of the gun, they were able to forget that their bellies were empty, at least part of the time.”

these damn pigs are pissing me off fr. they’re so greedy

“Are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed comrades? Have you any record of such resolution? Is it written down anywhere?”

damn mans is gaslighting them!!!!

“The distinguishing mark of a man is the HAND, the instrument with which does all his mischief.”

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.”

this whole page is amazing

“There, comrades, is the answer to all of our problems. It is summed up in a single word— Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.”