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I can’t get over the fact that Heathcliff teaches Hareton curse words to torment his father 😂

“They were both very attentive to her comfort, certainly. It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”

“‘I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’”

“‘But I don’t like the carving-knife, Mr. Hindley,’ I answered, ‘It has been cutting red herrings. I’d rather be shot, if you please.’” Gotta love Nelly 😭

“The contrast resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect” (63).

“At fifteen she was the queen of the country-side; she had no peer; and she did turn out a haughty, headstrong creature!” (59).

“Who knows but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen, each of them able to buy up, with one week’s income, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange together? And you were kidnapped by wicked sailors and brought to England. Were I in your place, I would frame high notion of my birth; and the thoughts of what I was should give me courage and dignity…” (51, Bantam Classic)