You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
Emily BronteWe must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
Emily BronteHush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.
Emily BronteTerror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
Emily Bronte