Great Expectations

"The dread of being misunderstood outweighed my duty."

"I am not what I once was to you."

"Estella was not to be found anywhere."

"I felt that I was growing wicked with my success."

"Great expectations had been one cause of my ruin."

"I have not been the worthiest of friends."

"My heart stopped beating when I saw you."

"It was not in the nature of things that I should rise so high with him."

"Believe it or not, I am beginning to understand Estella better now."

"I was happy until I began to despise myself."

"Whatever I possessed was now utterly valueless to me."

"I had loved her against reason, against promise, against peace."

"I do not think I ever was such a rabbit as that in my whole life."

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

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

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and I have been taught by it."

"I had never thought of being ashamed of my mother before."

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears."

"I wish you could develop into anything so fine till you are in earnest."

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."

"I had believed in the chimney sweeper coming down, in the Night of All the Year."

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

"I am afraid I am a coarse common boy."

"The future stretched before me as an open question"

"My conscience spoke louder than my pride"

"I learned to value what I had once deemed worthless"

"The pain of knowing what one has lost is exquisite"

"I had pursued false ideals with a blind determination"

"The power of understanding came upon me like a revelation"