“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.”

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.”

“Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”

“Love is like the wild-rose briar Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly?”

“And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--d...”

“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”

“It is my belief that with two such men in the household and no way to meet others, Emily (Bronte)had to make Heathcliff up out of thin air! And what a fine job she did. Men are more interesting in ...”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ”

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good for...”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”