May 22, 2013

  • Day 9 Book Entry

    Someone you wish you could meet

    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!” 
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights


    I want to meet Heathcliff.  Post Catherine, Heathcliff.  The Man who begged to be haunted by his love, and was granted his wish.  I want to be that house guest who witnesses the reunion of the ghost Cathy with her Heathcliff.  I want to see the frantic, tortured, all consuming love, for myself.  I always viewed him as this larger than life, man that even though he was broken was still commanding.  Like I would love him at the first encounter even though his love was gone from him.  "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

    Leah K.