Wuthering Heights Quotes
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“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Bridget Jones鈥檚 Diary
― Bridget Jones鈥檚 Diary

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty 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 monopolized 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?”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up.
'Parce que c'茅tait lui, parce que c'茅tait moi,' my father added, quoting Montaigne's all-encompassing explanation for his friendship with Etienne de la Bo茅tie.
I was thinking, instead, of Emily Bront毛's words: because 'he's more myself than I am.”
― Call Me by Your Name
'Parce que c'茅tait lui, parce que c'茅tait moi,' my father added, quoting Montaigne's all-encompassing explanation for his friendship with Etienne de la Bo茅tie.
I was thinking, instead, of Emily Bront毛's words: because 'he's more myself than I am.”
― Call Me by Your Name

“He's always, always in my mind 鈥 not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself 鈥 but as my own being.”
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“I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.”
― Songs My Mother Taught Me
― Songs My Mother Taught Me

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

“He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.”
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.”
― Lost in a Good Book
― Lost in a Good Book

“Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“What do you think is my favourite book? Just now, I mean; I change every three days. "Wuthering Heights." Emily Bronte was quite young when she wrote it, and had never been outside of Haworth churchyard. She had never known any men in her life; how could she imagine a man like Heathcliff?
I couldn't do it, and I'm quite young and never outside the John Grier Asylum - I've had every chance in the world. Sometimes a dreadful fear comes over me that I'm not a genius. Will you be awfully disappointed, Daddy, if I don't turn out to be a great author?”
― Daddy-Long-Legs
I couldn't do it, and I'm quite young and never outside the John Grier Asylum - I've had every chance in the world. Sometimes a dreadful fear comes over me that I'm not a genius. Will you be awfully disappointed, Daddy, if I don't turn out to be a great author?”
― Daddy-Long-Legs

“Heathcliff. The "hero" of Wuthering Heights. Although no one knows why.
He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you.”
― A Midsummer Tights Dream
He's mean, moody, and possibly a bit on the pongy side. Cathy loves him, though. She shows this by viciously rejecting him and marrying someone else for a laugh. Still, that is true love on the moors for you.”
― A Midsummer Tights Dream

“Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.”
― The Well of Lost Plots
― The Well of Lost Plots

“I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.”
― Lost in a Good Book
― Lost in a Good Book

“There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.”
― Seduction and Betrayal
― Seduction and Betrayal

“Winter is not here yet. There鈥檚 a little flower, up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist. Will you clamber up and pluck it to show papa?”
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“You鈥檝e owned me for years鈥攂ody and soul. I鈥檝e been a slave to your fucking ghost.”
― Sine Qua Non
― Sine Qua Non

“I am as happy here as I have ever been in my life: Ted and I take a long walk each day up to the moors (It鈥檚 generally rainy, or at least overcast) and never have I loved country so! All you can see us dark hills of heather stretching toward the horizon, as if you were striding on top of the world; last night at sunset the horizontal light turned us both luminous pink as we hiked in waterproof boots in the wuthering free wind, starting up rabbits that flicked away with a white flag of tail, staring back at the black-faced, gray furred moor sheep that graze, apparently wild, and with their curling horns looking like primeval yellow-eyed druid monsters. I never thought I could like any country as well as the ocean, but these moors are really even better, with the great luminous emerald lights changing always, and the animals and wildness. Read 鈥淲uthering Heights鈥 again here, and really felt it this time more than ever.
--from a letter to her mother Aurelia Schober Plath, written on 11 September 1956”
― Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956
--from a letter to her mother Aurelia Schober Plath, written on 11 September 1956”
― Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

“He鈥檚 more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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