He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again. p.8
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Heathcliff plots revenge
“I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!” p.78
Heathcliff plots revenge to cover his pain
“Let me alone, and I’ll plan it out: while I’m thinking of that I don’t feel pain.” p.78
Heathcliff’s face shows that he’s annoyed with himself
It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge. p.97
Heathcliff wishes Hindley dead
‘It’s a pity he cannot kill himself with drink,’ observed Heathcliff, muttering an echo of curses back when the door was shut. p.98
Nelly dislikes Heathcliff’s visits to Thrushcross Grange
Heathcliff’s visits were a continual nightmare to me; and, I suspected, to my master also. p.139
Heathcliff tells Cathy that she has no right to be jealous
I have a right to kiss her, if she chooses; and you have no right to object. I am not your husband: you needn’t be jealous of me! p.145
Edgar confronts Heathcliff
‘I’ve been so far forbearing with you, sir,’ he said quietly; ‘not that I was ignorant of your miserable, degraded character, but I felt you were only partly responsible for that’ p.148
Edgar attacks Heathcliff
My master quickly sprang erect, and struck him full on the throat a blow that would have levelled a slighter man. p.150
Avoiding a fight, Heathcliff leaves Thrushcross Grange
Heathcliff, on the second thoughts, resolved to avoid a struggle against three underlings: he seized the poker, smashed the lock from the inner door, and made his escape as they tramped in. p.150
Edgar will not tolerate Isabella’s attraction to Heathcliff
If she were so insane as to encourage that worthless suitor, it would dissolve all bonds of relationship between herself and him. p.154
Isabella asks Nelly if Heathcliff is a devil
Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? p.176
Edgar tells Nelly that he cannot forgive Isabella
We are eternally divided; and should she really wish to oblige me, let her persuade the villain she has married to leave the country p.188
Heathcliff claims it is impossible for Edgar to love Cathy as much as he does
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day … It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has […]
Heathcliff calls it absurd that Isabella believed that he loved her
Now, was it not the depth of absurdity—of genuine idiotcy, for that pitiful, slavish, mean-minded brach to dream that I could love her? p.195
Heathcliff tells Cathy she has killed herself
I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. p.207