“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Is this a joke? "He is more myself than I am?" That's impossible. You are you, not he is you. That doesn't make any sense!
Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate romantic stuff sometimes but this quote is sort of pathetic.
One of the best things about relationships is that you can take your qualities, and the qualities of your partner, and just build upon them together; not overshadow them. And all this quote does is show how instead of building those qualities, the partner (in this case Catherine is talking about Heathcliff) dominates any of the other's qualities.
That's not love.
Even if Catherine decided to go with Heathcliff, she would have soon recognized that having the same soul composition isn't necessarily a good thing.
They say opposites attract, and that's true sometimes. But the core of that saying is that it's okay to be different than your love interest, as long as you take those differences to build each other up.
"Today you are you, that is truer than true, there is no one alive who is youer than you." Dr. Seuss
Tell it like it is, doc.
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