Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

Kiss me again, but don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?

It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.

He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

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.

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Terror made me cruel . . .

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

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

She burned too bright for this world.

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

“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”

“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”

“Being in love” first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.”

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.”

“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.”

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

“Do not dare not to dare.”

“You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.”

“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.” – C.S. Lewis

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.”

“We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”

“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.”

“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis

“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen – not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s, we do not accept them easily enough.”

“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.” – C.S. Lewis

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”