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

I ran to the children's room: their door was ajar, I saw they had never laid down, though it was past midnight; but they were calmer, and did not need me to console them. The little souls were comforting each other with better thoughts than I could have hit on: no parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk; and, while I sobbed, and listened. I could not help wishing we were all there safe together.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

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

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.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.