Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

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'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 understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

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

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.