"I was only going to say that heaven did not 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." da Wuthering Heights, 1847.

(Emily Jane Brontë, nota anche con lo pseudonimo di Ellis Bell, scrittrice e poetessa; Thornton, 30 luglio 1818 – Haworth, 19 dicembre 1848)

in foto: dettaglio del volto di Emily Brontë da un quadro dipinto dal fratello Patrick, National Portrait Gallery, Londra.