If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

I’ve done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I’m too happy; and yet I’m not happy enough. My souls bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

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.

I have not broken your heart-you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.