I have dreamed 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.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

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.

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 all together.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous