1847Brontë
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. And Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. And Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."p. "Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you."
Heathcliff says this after Catherine dies, standing outside in the rain, bargaining with a woman who can no longer hear him. It is the only moment in the novel where his grief is completely unguarded. He does not ask for her back. He asks to be haunted. There is a difference, and Brontë knows it.p. "I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without my soul."
Also Heathcliff, also after her death. Two sentences that say the same thing twice because once is not enough. Catherine was not a person he loved. She was the condition of his being alive at all. This is either the most profound thing in the book or the most dangerous, depending on how you read love.p. "He's more myself than I am."
Catherine again. The shortest summary of the whole novel. She is not saying Heathcliff is better than her or that she prefers him. She is saying something stranger, that he is more essentially her than she is. That she recognises herself most clearly in him. The tragedy is that recognising this did not change what she did.p.