Wuthering Heights Quotes

He [Hindley] has been blaming our father (how dared he?) for treating H. [Heathcliff] too liberally; and swears he will reduce him to his right place.(3.30)

"Come in! come in!" he sobbed. "Cathy, do come. Oh, do – once more! Oh! My heart's darling, hear me this time – Catherine, at last!" (3.83)

[Lockwood:] I began to feel unmistakably out of place in that pleasant family circle. (2.63)

[. . .] knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch: instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand. The intense...

Heathcliff gradually fell back into the shelter of the bed as I spoke, finally sitting down almost concealed behind it. I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he strug...

Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral; and – a thing that amazed us, and set the neighbours gossiping right and left – he brought a wife with him. What she was, and where she was born, h...

But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country...

"Have you considered how you'll bear the separation, and how he'll bear to be quite deserted in the world?" (9.98)