WH: Time Flashcards
Calendar quote
Heathcliff: “Nothing - only look at the almanack on that wall” he pointed at a framed sheet hanging near the window, and continued, “The crosses are for the evenings you have spent with the Lintons, the dots are for those spent with me. Do you see? I’ve marked every day”
C8, P49
Cathy’s description of her feelings for Heathcliff
“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 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”
C9, P59
Heathcliff talking about Cathy haunting him
Heathcliff: “It was a strange way of killing: not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreaths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope through eighteen years!”
C29, P211
Heathcliff being surrounded by Cathy’s image
Heathcliff: “I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day - I am surrounded by her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women - my own features - mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!”
C33, P235
