Let’s be clear: Wuthering Heights is not a guide to healthy relationships. It’s a novel about obsession, emotional self-destruction, and a love so intense it’s unhinged. And yet… once in a while, that’s exactly what I’m in the mood for. Sometimes I don’t want a gentle love story. Sometimes I want stormy moors and terrible decisions.
Here are five quotes that show exactly why this is not a romance to take notes from.
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!
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.
I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
I wish I could hold you,” she continued, bitterly, “till we were both dead! 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?
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same;
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