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‘ I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it. They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I’m convinced it will be reached - and soon - because it has devoured my existence: I am swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfilment.’ p176

‘…I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught glimpses in every object by day - I am surrounded with 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!’ p175

‘His honest, warm, and intelligent nature shook off rapidly the clouds of ignorance and degradation in which it had been bred; and Catherine’s sincere commendations acted as a spur to his industry.’ p174

‘He had a fixed idea … that, his nephew resembled him in person, he would resemble him in mind; for Linton’s letters bore few or no indications of his defective character. And I, through pardonable weakness, refrained from correcting the error; asking myself what good there would be in disturbing bid last moments with information he had neither power nor opportunity to turn to account.’ p143

‘In that’s manner Heraton, who would now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, who reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father’s inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.’ p102

‘The flash of her eyes had been succeeded by a dreamy and melancholy softness; they no longer gave the impression of looking at the objects around her: they appeared always to gaze beyond, and far beyond - you would have said out of this world’ p85