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Julie's Lifelines


"...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 annilhilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it." (74)

"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." (137)

"That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness; mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seemed at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wide with joy." (227)

Jenny's Lifelines


"It is, if I may take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; for every wrench of agony return a wrench: reduce him to my level." (165)

"But his self-love would endure no further torment" (276)

"His attention was roused...for his eyes rained down tears among the ashes, and he drew his breath in suffocating sighs." (166)

Mitch's Lifelines
"I'll have her in my arms again! If she be cold, I'll think it is the north wind that chills me, and if she be motionless it is sleep." Heathcliff (264)

"Don't torture me till I'm as mad as yourself" Heathcliff (145)

"I gave him my heart, and he took it and pinched it to death; and flung it back at me" (157) Isabella



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