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.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

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

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

Terror made me cruel.

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.