Emily Bronte

"I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?"

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Source: Wuthering Heights. Book by Emily Brontë, 1847.

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Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte

Poet, Novelist

Emily Bronte was a 19th-century English novelist and poet, best known for her novel Wuthering Heights, which explores themes of love, nature, and human emotion.

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