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1 " She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world. "
― , Wuthering Heights
2 " If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.''Because you are not fit to go there,' I answered. 'All sinners would be miserable in heaven.''But it is not for that. I dreamt once that I was there.''I tell you I won't hearken to your dreams, Miss Catherine! I'll go to bed,' I interrupted again.She laughed, and held me down; for I made a motion to leave my chair.'This is nothing,' cried she: 'I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. "
3 " I love my murderer--but yours? How can I? "
4 " Are you possessed with a devil,' he pursued, savagely, 'to talk in that manner to me when you are dying? Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me? "
5 " Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same "
6 " for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? 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 by glimpse 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! "