Wuthering Heights has been one of my favourite books. I have always been inspired by the love of Heathcliff. It is not just intense, but also very pure. He might be a bad guy in the book but his love is definitely genuine. Although it’s unrequited love but I still can’t say that I can relate to it. Anyway I was going through the passages that I marked & I just couldn’t help putting them on the blog. I hope you like them:
“I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; & in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you – oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”
“The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, & that I have lost her.”
I have been thinking that unrequited love does a lot of damage but what about the love that is returned? What about the love that is unconditional & pure? Yeah I’m referring to the love of animals. I don’t think anything could be compared to that. It even surpasses the real meaning of love.
And when they die, they leave a hole in your heart. And there can never be a substitute for anyone. Each individual or being is unique. No one can replace anyone I suppose. And if someone can, then it’s not love. Or maybe you grow out of love.
I’m very sorry to say but it’s the kind of emotion that hurts terribly whether you feel it for humans or animals. It almost kills you when the object of your affection happens to be a pet, because they aren’t selfish.They love regardless of your flaws that are prominent to the world.
