Pip

"I had come to see it all now as one vast mistake."

"I was straining against the very chains that bound me to her."

"Herbert had come to my aid when I most needed it."

"I understood at last what it meant to be truly humble."

"It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."

"That terrible morning when I left the forge, I was not at all happy."

"The convict leaning on me heavily with his broken leg."

"I felt as if the stops had been pulled out of my heart."

"I was in the first flush of my great expectations."

"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right."

"My sister had a trenchant way of pursuing conversations."

"The mist was quite gone, and I could see the landscape clearly."

"I should have asked leave to stay, and run away from myself."

"It struck me that she was with child, and that accounted for much."

"I felt myself getting warmer towards him with every minute."

"The tears fell fast from her eyes when I told her."

"I wish you to know that I never forgot you."

"There was something in her manner that suggested she had suffered."

"I have learned that expectations are often the parents of disappointment."

"The wind howled about the old house like a living thing."

"I was young and foolish, and thought myself important."

"She treated me with indifference, which cut more deeply than cruelty."

"My benefactor's wishes were law to me."

"I resolved to become everything that was expected of me."

"There was a sadness in her eyes that no amount of beauty could hide."

"I have paid a terrible price for my vanity."

"I was ashamed of my own heart when I thought of Joe."

"I learned that loyalty was worth more than all the money in the world."

"She was my lodestar, though I knew I could never reach her."

"The forge was warm and safe, a place I had foolishly despised."