"The intense horror of a 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 Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton). 'I'm come home. I'd lost my way on the moor!'" pg 22
"'You have killed me-and thriven on it, I think.' .... -Catherine
'Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me? You know you lie to say I have killed you: and, Catherine, you know that I could as soon forget you as my existence! It is not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I should writhe in the torments of hell!'"-Heathcliff pg 150
"I love my murderer, but yours? How can I?" -Heathcliff pg 152
"I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" pg 158
"'Mr. Heathcliff, you're a cruel man, but you're not a fiend; and you won't for mere malice destroy, irrevocably, all my happiness...I've given over crying: but I'm going to kneel here, at your knee; and I'll not get up, and I'll not take my eyes from your face, til you look back at me! No, don't turn away! do look! You'll see nothing to provoke you. I don't hate you. I'm not angry that you struck me. Have you ever loved anybody in your whole life, uncle? never? Ah! you must look once-I'm so wretched-you can't help being sorry and pitying me.'
'Keep your eft fingers off; and move, or I'll kick you!' cried Heathcliff, brutally repulsing her. 'I'd rather be hugged by a snake. How the devil can you dream of fawning on me? I detest you!'" pg 258
"Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery! You are miserable, are you not? Lonely, like the devil, and envious like him? Nobody loves you-nobody will cry for you when you die! I wouldn't be you!"-Catherine, pg 270
"It's a poor conclusion, is it not?... I get levers and mattocks to demolish the two houses, and train myself to be able of working like Hercules, and when everything is ready, and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished!...I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing." -Heathcliff, pg 303
Well, I hope that you enjoyed having a flashback of these amazing quotes! Wuthering Heights is almost over!
-Aurora
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