Great Expectations

"I found myself utterly altered from what I had been"

"In that one moment I saw clearly what I had been denying"

"The hours seemed to lengthen into eternities"

"I learned that true gentility was not found in possessions"

"She took me in with a glance"

"The dream of my childhood had become my torment"

"My very breath seemed to turn into constraint"

"I perceived I was yet unknown to him"

"Nothing that I can say will alter the course of events"

"I resolved that the time had come to strengthen my mind"

"The love which had consumed me had been noble and true"

"I had got into a state of most singular confusion"

"My heart was beating violently"

"She gave me a look I did not understand"

"I have never been fortunate enough to know much of my parents"

"It is not what we do which troubles our conscience"

"Ambition is a comprehensive word"

"I had been thrown among some very rough people"

"The freshness of her beauty was like a charm"

"I thought of all that I owed to Joe, and how little I had made of my opportunities"

"I am not at all in my proper state of mind"

"The very first paper I saw in the pile was a note from Biddy"

"I was not a happy boy; I was not a happy man"

"It is a great thing to have a friend"

"I felt that I had been growing a considerable beard in the course of the last few days"

"I feel as if I am wasting the precious hours"

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching"

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

"I have a great expectation that something is going to happen"

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