Love is like the wild rose-briar; friendship like the holly-tree.
Emily Brontë · The opening of "Love and Friendship," her poem on which lasts, the rose of passion or the evergreen of friendship; the holly wins.
Emily Brontë · The opening of "Love and Friendship," her poem on which lasts, the rose of passion or the evergreen of friendship; the holly wins.
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Emily Brontë · Heathcliff to Nelly Dean on the night Catherine dies, dashing his head against a tree, the end of the speech that begins "Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living" and begs "Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad!"
Emily Brontë · Catherine to Nelly Dean in the same chapter 9 speech, a moment before "Nelly, I am Heathcliff!"; the sentence before it says her love for Linton "is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it".
Emily Brontë · Catherine Earnshaw to the servant Nelly Dean in chapter 9, having just agreed to marry Edgar Linton; the speech goes on "He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
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