WH Quotes - Suffering Flashcards
[Heathcliff] “Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me?”
Chapter 15, Page 116, 1/4 down
[Heathcliff] “‘May she wake in torment!’ he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion.”
Chapter 16, Page 121, bottom
[Heathcliff’s grief for Cathy] “howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast being goaded to death with knives and spears.”
Chapter 16, Page 122, 1/4 down
[about Hareton] “‘I’ve tied his tongue,’ observed Heathcliff.”
Chapter 21, Page 159, 1/3 down
[Heathcliff talking about Hareton] “And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance. I’ve got him faster than his scoundrel of a father secured me.”
Chapter 21, Page 159, middle
[Heathcliff] “my mind is so eternally secluded to itself”
Chapter 33, Page 235, 1/4 down
[Catherine to Heathcliff] “Mr. Heathcliff you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery. You are miserable, are you not? Lonely, like the devil, and envious like him? Nobody loves you - nobody will cry for you when you die! I wouldn’t be you!”
Chapter 29, Page 208, bottom
[Heathcliff] “he gazed at something within two yards’ distance. And whatever it was, it communicated, apparently, bothy pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes: at least the anguished, yet raptured, expression of his countenance suggested that idea”
Chapter 34, Page 240, bottom
[Heathcliff] “my soul’s bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.”
Chapter 34, Page 242, 1/3 down
