It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EB Emily BrontëNovelist & poet · 1818–1848What this quote means
Some bonds feel less like attraction than recognition — a sense of being made of the same essence. It names love as a deep, almost elemental kinship.
Context
English novelist and poet, author of the singular Wuthering Heights, written from the windswept Yorkshire moors.
This line is among the quotes by Emily Brontë that readers return to on love, drawn from Wuthering Heights — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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