I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. 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. Unknown
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Emily Brontë created the character of Cathy in Wuthering Heights as a way to explain her own thoughts and emotions about love and marriage. Brontë believed that there was no such thing as love without marriage: "Love is like a flower, It must follow its time; It blossoms not every hour, Nor every day, Nor with the hours and days; But when the time comes it will bloom And bear its fragrance on the air As this clock does now."

Source: Wuthering Heights

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