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“In every cloud, in every tree— filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day—I am surrounded by her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women—my own features—mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!”

“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…”


That’s beautiful writing

Heathcliff making fun of the baby’s name is killing me

“Heathcliff, if I were you, I’d go stretch myself over her grave and die like a faithful dog. The world is surely not worth living in now, is it? You had distinctly impressed on me the idea that Catherine was the whole joy of your life: I can’t imagine how you think of surviving her loss.”


YOU TELL HIM ISABELLA

“Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in the abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in 80 years as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him. Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse. It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?”

“You know as well as I do, that for every thought she spends on Linton she spends a thousand on me!”

Honestly poor Linton

“… quite possible that your master should have nothing but common humanity and a sense of duty to fall back upon. But do you imagine that I shall leave Catherine to his duty and humanity? and can you compare my feelings respecting Catherine to his?”

They’re sooooo toxic it drives me crazy

Cathy is so mean!!