I decided to take on the classics after reading Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I decided on Wuthering Heights after reading its plot summary on Goodreads. Phew, it was a long read. I cannot endure to read the book for a long time since I'm afraid I'd suffer from intellectual indigestion. Maybe the book was too much for my cute little brain. (LOL). Anyways, I hated Catherine Earnshaw...and so Mr. Heathcliff. They were both conceited and selfish. They made hell out of the lives of everyone surrounding them. Another character which I couldn't help but despise was Isabel's (and Heathcliff's) son, Linton. Boy, I never met someone as coward and as selfish as Linton. Good thing there were characters I loved like Catherine Linton (the daughter) and Hareton. I felt really happy that they ended up together. I just felt sorry for Edgar and Isabel Linton for being caught in the middle of Heathcliff and Cathy's emotional dilemmas.
The Quote Book 3
Oooh, and by the way, let me share some of my favorite quotes from the book. (yes, surprisingly I did find some quotes worth posting. HaHa):
"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. 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."
"You teach me now how cruel you've been-cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears; they'll blight you--they'll damn you. You loved me--then what right you had to leave me? What right -answer me- for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart--you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
"May she wake in torment...Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - not in heaven- not perished-where? Oh! You said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you-haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderes, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. 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 leave without my soul!"
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