Favorite line or quote? - Page 3

Originally posted by: ShadowKisses

My absolute favourite quote has to be from Wuthering Heights -- It's by a long shot the most passionate passage I've read. So far, I've yet to come across such heart-felt, passionate prose.

It goes something like this:

"May you not rest as long a I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt there murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"

Others from the same novel but slightly less impressionable:

"Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing 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. So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you--oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"

"I forgive what you have done to me, I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?"

Incidentally, all the statements above come from Bronte's anti-hero, Heathcliff.

The most insightful phrases I've read come from Emma by Austen. The following quote, though, is really amazing.

"Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken; but where, as in this case, though the conduct is mistaken, the feelings are not, it may not be very material."

I really like how beautifully the phrases flow and how meaningful the words really are.