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.

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

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

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

She burned too bright for this world.