Wuthering Heights

10 Quotes:

Quote 1)
"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through me like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
~Catherine (pg. 79)
    This quote is spoken by Catherine Earnshaw as she is describing a dream she had to her servent Ellen. I chose analyze this quote because of the poetic way it is written. I also like the metaphor being used, describing strange dreams that stick with you as wine seeping through water. I feel as though people can really relate to thi squote. I can relate to this quote because I've had weird dreams that stay with me, and alter the way I think about things and how I react to certain situations.



Quote 2)
"Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels grew so angy that they flung me out onto the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy."
~Catherine (pg. 80)
    This quote is when Cathy is telling Nelly (Ellen) about her strange dream. She dreamed she went to heaven and was homesick, so the angels got annoyed and threw her back down to her home. I think this quote is very importanat to understanding the story as well as getting a deeper understanding of Catherine's charachter. Catherine loves Wuthering Heights because it is her home, ans its where Heathcliff is. In this quote she is basically saying that the only place she could ever be truely happy is at Wuthering Heights.



Quote 3)
"He's more myself than I am, whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
~Catherine (pg. 80)
    In this quote Catherine is trying to explain her complex feelings for Heathcliff to Nelly. This is after Catherine has just accepted Edgar Lintons marriage propsal. Catherine tells Nelly that she loves Edgar because he is young, handsome, rich, and he loves her. But she says she loves Heathcliff because he is an extension of herslef, she will always love him, because they share such a strong connection.



Quote 4)
"If all else perished, and he remained; I should still continue to be. But if all else remained and he were annihilated, the world would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem to be 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 visable delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff. He is always, always in my mind, not as a pleasure any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
~Catherine (pg. 82)
    This is one of my favorite quotes from Wutheirng Heights. When Nelly dosen't understand why Catherine accepted Linton's proposal when she is in love with Heathcliff, Catherine procceds to describe her love for the two men, in an attempt to explain to Nelly (and herself) why, in her heart, she believes she was wrong to accept Edgar's proposal. This quote is important to the story because it establishes the intensity and complexity of Catherine ans Heathcliff's relationship.



Quote 5)
"Pray, don't imagine that he conceals depths of benevolence and affection beneath a stern exterior! He's not a rough diamond, a pearl containing oyster of a rustic: he's a feirce, pitiless, wolfish man."
~Catherine (pg. 102)
    In this quote Catherine accurately and harshly describes Heathcliff to her lovestruck sister-in-law, Isabella, who is smitten with him. Isabella believes Heathcliff to be a deep, sensative, tortured soul, and she falls in love with him. Catherine finds this hilarious. However jelousy and slight concern for her sister-in-law's well being persuades Catherine to try and set Isabella straight, and warn her that Heathcliff is not misunderstood, and she [Isabella] would be stupid to pursue him.



Quote 6)
"I seek no revenge on you. Thats not the plan. The Tyrant grinds down his slaves, and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them. You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myslef a little in the same style, and refrain from insult as much as you are able. Having levelled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire you own charity in giving me that for a home. if I imagined you really wished me to marry Isabel, I'd cut my throat!"
~Heathcliff (pg. 112)
    Catherine just discovered Heathcliff kissing Isabella. He told her that he was seeking revenge because of how she [Catherine] had treated him infernally. He admits that he is not seeking revenge on her directly (because he loves her), but she has simply left him with nothing, so he is taking it out in everyone else around him. In this paragraph he tells her that she can't have Edgar and tell him [Heathcliff] how to live his life. He also expresses that he knows that him being with Isabella does make Catherine jelous, even though she trys to hide it.



Quote 7)
"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in 80 years as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolized by him."
~Heathcliff (pg.148)
    In this quote Heathcliff describes to Nelly his powerful love for Catherine. He explains, poetically, how much more he loves Catherine than Edgar ever could, and he knows that she loves him more than she loves Edgar. Catheirne has just fallen seriously ill and Heathcliff trys to persuade Nelly to let him see her. This quote is valuable to the story because it gives the reader insight into Heathcliff's character and expresses (again) the depth of Catherine and Heathcliff's love for each other.



Quote 8)
"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 aflict 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 - oh, God! Would you like ti live with your soul in the grave?"
~Heathcliff (pg. 159)
    This is Heathcliff and Catheirne last moment together. Catherine is dying, she claims of a broken heart. She blames heathcliff and Linton for her dying. In this emotional paragraph Heathcliff tells Cathy that it is her own fault she is dying, because she wasn't true to her heart. This is another one of my favorite parts in Wuthering Heights because they are cherishing their lats moments together, and the bittersweet irony of their love comes out. Catherine and Heathcliff were in love with each other, but they never actually ended up together.



Quote 9)
"May she wake in torment! Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - not in heaven - not perished - where? Oh! You said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as i am living - you said I killed you - haunt me, then! the murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know 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!"
~Heathcliff (pg. 165)
    This is my favorite quote in all of Wuthering Heights. This quote always makes me cry. Catherine has just died, and Heathcliff, anguished, delivers this dark, eloquint monologue. Heathcliff is driven nearly insane after Catheirne's death, and with this quote I feel that the reader can really feel his pain. He wants to be haunted by Catherine's ghost, as long as it means he gets to see her again. Catheirne and Heathcliff are extemely flawed characters, They arre greedy, slefish, shallow, and cruel, but the reason they are remembered as on eof literatures most romantic couples is because of how strong and passionate their love for each other is. It's their best quality.



Quote 10)
"There's hetahcliff and a woman yonder under t'nab, and I darenut pass 'em!"
~Random Shepard Boy (pg. 325)
    As the narrarator of the story, Mr. Lockwood, is walkjing back home to the Grange form Wuthering Heights, after Heathcliff has just dies, he passes a boy with some sheep, who won't cross the road. nWhen asked why, the boy explains that he saw Heathcliff and a woman out on the moors, and he doesn't want to disturb them. I like thi squote because I feel it helps to wrap the story up, by implying that Heathcliff and Catherine, at long last, end up together.