a "wuthering" quotation

“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive, and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his, and he said he could not breathe in mine.”

Emily Jane Brontë 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems, regarded as a poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.