Cold Mountain Quotations

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.