[CarleyGee]

Another one from Wuthering Heights
(such a great book!)

Nelly: Where were you last night? I'm not putting the question through
idly curiousity, but --
Heathcliff: You are putting the question through very idle curiousity, yet,
I'll answer it. Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am
within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it.

There were so many great quotes in this book, I can't even
begin to go through it and pick them out!

And another one from Go Ask Alice.

"Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real
and which parts are things I've gotten from books."

To me, that's extremely true on my part, even though I do have
a clear view of who I am now, there are times where the characters
in books are just so perfect and sweet and everybody loves them,
that I want to be just like that.

"I used to think I was the only one who felt things, but I really
am one infinitely small part of an aching humanity."

I know that this book wasn't actually written by a teenage girl,
and was actually just "based" on true stories compiled together,
but haven't we all felt like that before? There have been times
that I doubted that everyone else was even real, and that maybe
I was put here just to figure out that I'm the only who who is
actually thinking.

Now, I read a lot of old books, Wuthering Heights was written in
1850 something I think, and another I read was the Good Earth.
As much as most people would find it incredibly boring because
it is mostly descriptions and very little dialogue, it turned into
being one of my favorite books. There is something about this
book that you don't see in books anymore. The way it is written,
the same with Wuthering Heights, is so different, I was drawn in.

This next quote is particularly a favorite.

"It did not do in this life to be too fortunate.
The air and the earth were filled with malignant
spirits who could not endure the happiness
of mortals, especially of such as are poor."

I don't know exactly what it means, but from what I can
understand, it really touches a sensitive part of me. The
greedy people in this world are out of control, and at
times I stop to wonder if there are more good people in
this world, or more bad people?

More later?