- "There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves."
- "If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem 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 visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff — 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 — so, don't talk of our separation again — it is impracticable"
- "You and I are flesh and blood, but we are also stardust."
- "The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact."
- "These violent delights have violent ends."
- "In Italy, women are more dangerous than shotguns."
- "maybe if we were the last two people on earth. and there weren't sheep. ARE THERE SHEEP?!"
- "the shit hath hitteth the fan...eth."
- "it's a high price to pay but rubbing tiger tummies is one of the great pleasures in life."
- "i've got news for you. i'm down. i've got the 411. and you are not going out and getting jiggy with some boy. i don't care how dope his ride is. mama didn't raise no foo."
- "Somehow, he has already managed to overshoot subtle and land in the middle of a shit pile of obnoxious."
- "Oh, I thought you were going to tell me what a bad eugoogalizor I am. "
- Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
jul 12 2010 ∞
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