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Cinzia's note

"This is nothing" cried she: "I was only going to say that heaven did seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. 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 moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

Other lines that struck me for their powerful similes, when Catherine describes the dream she had, about being in heaven, and compares it with the fact of marrying Edgar Linton. There are beautiful metaphores in these lines.

"He's more myself than I am [...]", she couldn'have expressed Catherine's feelings better than that.


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