1. “I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
2. “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
3. “I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
4. “I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”
5. “Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
6. “Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”
7. “It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,” he answered. “Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?”
8. “I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.”
9.”Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?”
10. “Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.”
11. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
12. “If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.”
13. “I hope he will not die before I do!”
14. “I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
15. “I have no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven.”
16. “The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
17. “I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!”
18. “Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
19. “If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.”
20. “It is a poor conclusion, is it not? An absurd termination to my violent exertions? I get levers and mattocks to demolish the two houses, and train myself to be capable 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!”
21. “I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free.”
22. “The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy in proportion to the increase of pain.”
23. “I have to remind myself to breathe—almost to remind my heart to beat!”