CATHERINE "What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and HE remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. - My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. 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."...(ch.ix)
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HEATHCLIFF "'You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. WHY did you despise me? WHY did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - then what RIGHT had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, YOU, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart - YOU have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.".....(volii,chi)
EMILY BRONTE*
Gosh gosh... that was exactly what i needed... tears came to my eyes as i was reading these lines... i wonder how does it feel? How does it feel to have this kind of love for sb? Each person is suposed to live, in the very best, one great romance, one glorious love? Or it s just the lucky ones? And is it luck or curse to love sb so deeply, so trully, so endlessly that your whole existence deepends on this particular person?
ReplyDeletegod who are you..dudette you talk like you wrote the book(actually that would be a definatelly good preview)))......well anyways you just spoke(wrote) my unsaid thoughts on the subject....trust me i know!!! that was exactly the questions that came to my mind when i read the book(plus the tears))
ReplyDeletecurse,love,luck,how does it feel???....aaaa
p.s. i hope you are not inpired from a certain someone we know(and despise) to write the heartbreaking speech above...ha??