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Description of young Heathcliff, Society-Chapter 4 page 25/26
"Dirty, ragged, black-haired child [...] gispy brat [...] Mr Earnshaw told me to wash it, and give it clean things and let it sleep with the children."
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Nelly about Mr Earnshaw, Violence- Chapter 5 page 28
"Whilst his father was near, roused the old man to a furry he seized his stick to strike him and shook with rage that he could not do it."
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Nelly describing Catherine- Chapter 5 page 29
"Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going- singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same. A wild, wicked slip she was- but she had the bonniest eye, and sweetest smile."
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Nelly about Catherine, Society and Love- Chapter 5 page 29
"She was too fond of Heathcliff."
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Hindly to Catherine, Society-Chapter 7 page 36
"Cathy, you are quite a beauty! I should scarcely have known you, you looke like a lady now."
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Heathcliff, Society-Chapter 7 page 39
" I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich"
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Heathcliff, Revenge- Chapter 7 page 42
"I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back I dont care how long I wait if I can only do it at least."
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Edgar, Power-Chapter 8 page 51
"The soft thing looked askance through the window; he possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed or a bird half eatern."
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Catherine, Love, Soicety- Chaper 9 page 57
"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff [...] Whatever our souls are mafe of, his and mine are the same, and [Edgar's] is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."
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Catherine, Love- Chapter 9 page 59
"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter chnages the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the enternal rocks beneath.[...] I'am Heathcliff!"
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Pathetic Fallacy - Chapter 9 page 61
"At midnight, while we still set up, the strom came rattling over the heights in full fury. There was a violent wind, as well as thunder."
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Heathliff description, society- Chapter 10 page 69
"He looked intelligent, and retained no marks of former degradation"
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Healthcliff, interior and exterior- Chapter 10 page 73
"though his exterior was altered his mind was unchanged"
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Hearton, violence chapter 11 page 79
"He retreated out of arms length, and picked up a large flint [..] he rasied his missle to hurl it"
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Healthcliff and Cathrine- irony- Chapter 11 page 81
"I'm not your husband; you neednt be jealous of me!" " I'm not jealous of you"
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Edgar Metaphor time-Chapter 11 page 83
"Cahty this lamb of yours threatens like a bull"
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Catherine- Chapter 12 page 88
"I thought, though everybody hated and dispised each other, they could now avoid loving me[..] How dreary to meet death, surrounded by thier cold faces"
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Catherine and nature- Chapter 12 page 88 to 89
"Bonny bird; wheeling over our heads in the middle of the moor" "pigeons' feahers in the pillows- no wonder I couldn't die!"
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Heathcliff, Love- Chapter 14 page 108
"for every thought she spends on Linton she spends a thousand on me"
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Heathcliff and Isabella- Chapter 14 page 110
"me a hero of romance and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion.[..] But no brutality disgusted her"
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Heathcliff and Catherine, Violence- Chapter 15 page 116
" she seized his hair[..] wretching his head free and grinding his teeth [..] I saw four distinct impressions left blue in the colourless skin."
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Cathy's birth-Chapter 16 page 119
"An unwelcome infant it was, poor thing? It might have wailed out of life, and nobody cared a morsal"
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Catherines death- Chapter 16 page 121
"Gone to heaven I hope [..] may she wake as kindly in the other world"
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Healthcliff, Love- Chapter 16 page 122
"I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"
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Nelly, Duality and Love- Chapter 16 page 122
"I twisted the two, and enclosed them together."
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Isabella and Heathcliff- Chapter 17 page 125
"I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death"
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Isabella, Revenge- Chapter 17 page131
"I couldn't miss this chance of sticking in a dart[..] delight of paying wrong from wrong"
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Nelly descripting young Cathy- Chapter 18 page 137
"She was the most winning thing that ever brough sunshine into a desolate house a real beauty in face, wiht the Earnshaw handsome dark eyes, but the Lintons fair skin, with the small features and yellow curling hair."
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Heathcliff, Love- Chapter 17 page 125
"Wept tears of blood for Catherine!"
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Hearton and Cathy first meet, Society- Chapter 18 page 141/142
"Hearton grew black as thundercloud" "He my cousin! cried Cathy, with a scornful laugh"
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Edgar protecting Cathy- Chapter 20 page 148
"As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or bad, you must say nothing of wher he is gone to my daughter; she cannot associate with him"
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Linton being a snob, Society- Chapter 20 page 150
"He surveyed the carved front and low browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry bushes and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head; his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode."
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Hearton and Heathcliff, Society- Chapter 21 page 158
"I convert Hearton, with all his degradation? I'd have loved the lad had he been some one else.[..] Heaton darkened: I percived he was very sensitive to suspected slights, and had obviously a dim notion of his inferiority."
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Nelly finds Cathy's and Linton's love letters-Chapter 21 page 164
"The earlier dated were embarrassed and short; gradually, however, they expanded into copious love letters, foolish as the age of the writer"
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Cathy's love for her father Edgar-Chapter 22 page 168
"I care for nothing in comparison with papa [...] I love him better than myself"
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Healthcliff is violent to Cahty-Chapter 27 page 196
"He seized her with the liberated hand, and, pulling her on his knee, administered with the other a shower of terrific slaps on both sides of the head."
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Heathcliff forces Edgar and Cahty to marry-Chapter 27 page 199
"I promise to marry Linton"
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Linton sees Cathy as a possession- Chapter 28 page 202
"She's my wife, and its shameful that she should wish to leave me!"
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Edgar's death-Chapter 28 page 206
"He died blissfully [..] Kissing her on the cheek and murmured, "I am going ot her; and you darling child shall come to us"
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Cathy and Heathcliff, Love and Revege- Chapter 29 page 208
"Mr Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinkin that your cruelty arises from your greater misery!"
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Linton's death, Cahty is now free- Chapter 30 page 213
"He's safe and I'm free [..] you have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death!"
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Hearton, uneducated due to Heathcliff's Revenge- Chapter 31 page 218
"Heathcliff never reads; so he took it into his head to destroy my books."
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Cathy educates Hearton- Chapter 32 page 223
"HIs handsome features glowed with pleasure, and his eyes kept impatiently wandering from the page to a small white hand over his shoulder, which recalled him by a smart slap on the cheek, whenever its owner detected such signs of inattention."
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Heathcliff violence towards Cathy- Chapter 33 page 232
"Damnable witch! Dare you pretend to rouse him againt me? Off with her! Do you hear? Fling her into the kitchen! I'll kill her"
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Healthcliff sees Catherine everywhere, Love- Chapter 33 page 235
"In every cloud, in every tree filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image!"
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Heathcliff sees himself within Hearton and Cathy- Chapter 33 page 235
"Hearton's aspect was the ghost of my immortal love, of my wild endeavours to hold my right, my degradation, my pride, happiness, and my anguish."
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Heathcliff's death, now at peace- Chapter 34 page 243
"Mr Heathcliff was there- laid on his back. His eyes met mine so keen and fierce, I started; and then he seemed to smile."
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Catherine and Heathcliff, Supernatural and Love- Chapter 34 page 244
"They's Heathcliff and a women, younder"
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"Whilst his father was near, roused the old man to a furry he seized his stick to strike him and shook with rage that he could not do it."

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Nelly about Mr Earnshaw, Violence- Chapter 5 page 28

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"Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going- singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same. A wild, wicked slip she was- but she had the bonniest eye, and sweetest smile."

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"She was too fond of Heathcliff."

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"Cathy, you are quite a beauty! I should scarcely have known you, you looke like a lady now."

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