Pip

"I understood then that true gentility comes from within."

"I cannot explain the sensation that overcame me at that moment."

"She had the power to make me feel both the greatest and least of men."

"I was caught between two worlds, belonging fully to neither."

"I have come to believe that we are the architects of our own fate."

"Love, true love, requires the sacrifice of one's own desires."

"I am afraid I am a coarse, common boy, and you will be ashamed of me."

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

"I felt that I had grown a little in my feelings."

"I have never been so near happiness as I am now."

"I wish I could cancel the past."

"The heart knows what it wants."

"I have much to learn still."

"I am forever changed by what I have experienced."

"I have learned to value what truly matters."

"I am bound by chains of my own making."

"I have learned humility through suffering."

"I cannot undo my betrayals."

"Love requires vulnerability."

"I have grown beyond my former self."

"I seek redemption through action."

"Courage is not the absence of fear."

"Love endures beyond all else."

"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart."

"We are not micros of our circumstances; we are the authors of our fate."

"I felt that I was growing desperate from inaction."

"Remorse is the poison of life."

"There are few things I would not do for those I truly care about."

"I am not made for better things."