WH Quotes - Doomed Love, Destruction

Question 1

[Edgar after the fight with Cathy] “he possessed the power to depart as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.”

Answer 1

Chapter 8, Page 51, middle

Question 2

[Cathy’s marriage before Heathcliff returns] “the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.”

Answer 2

Chapter 10, Page 66, middle

Question 3

[Cathy warns Isabella about Heathcliff] “‘Nelly, help me to convince her of her madness. Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. I’d as soon put that little canary into the park on a winter’s day, as recommend you to bestow your heart on him! It is deplorable ignorance of his character, child, and nothing else, which makes that dream enter your head”

Answer 3

Chapter 10, Page 74, 1/3 down