Great Expectations

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

"The unqualified truth is, that when every channel in this great system by which we are connected becomes a channel of misery."

"I only ask to be free. The rest I leave."

"It is a thing to wonder at, the power of admiration."

"I am what you have made me."

"To move forward, we must sometimes look back with compassion."

"Fear of the unknown often prevents us from becoming who we might be."

"The measure of a person is not their fortune, but their character."

"I learned that true strength lies in vulnerability."

"We are shaped by our choices more than by our circumstances."

"The past cannot be altered, only understood and accepted."

"I began to understand that nobility of spirit transcends rank and station."

"To understand another person is to forgive them."

"I have learned to value what I once took for granted."

"In the end, we are all seeking redemption for our past actions."

"The heart knows what the mind refuses to accept."

"I am both the victim and the perpetrator of my own circumstances."

"Once you perceive that you are capable of more, you cannot return to less."

"I make the best of it and seek happiness where I can find it."

"The uneasiness I had always known in being around her began to fade."

"I thought of her often after this."

"You must know that I am what you see, nothing more and nothing less."

"I have dared to hope that I might be a worthier object of your regard."

"Tell me something - is your heart already engaged?"

"My father's name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer than Pip."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"I am not what I once was."

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

"I wish you to know me as a gentleman."

"The secret was mine, and I kept it."