I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

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.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.