WH Quotes - Conventional Love, Clichés & The Rejection Of Them, Non Conformity Withing Love Flashcards
[Cathy’s description of her feelings for Edgar] “‘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 altogether. There now!’”
Chapter 9, Page 56, top
[Cathy’s symbolic dream] “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. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
Chapter 9, Page 57, bottom
[Heathcliff] “Last night I was in the threshold of hell. Today, I am within sight of my heaven,”
Chapter 24, Page 238, bottom
[Heathcliff] “I have nearly attained my heaven; and that of others is altogether uncalled and uncovered by me”
Chapter 34, Page 242, bottom
