Emily Bronte — English Novelist born on July 30, 1818, died on December 19, 1848

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell... (wikipedia)

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.