Great Expectations

"I have but one heart and one love."

"The cold light of reason dispelled the darkness of my ignorance."

"He was always the best and truest friend that ever lived."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching."

"I am not what I once was."

"She gave me her hand, and I held it with reverence."

"Great expectations indeed, but greater disappointments."

"I became conscious of a change in my circumstances."

"There was no truth or steadiness in anything."

"I was always in love with Estella."

"I have dared to hope for the best."

"Life is too short to take in malice or resentment."

"I had never thought of it before, but the sudden consciousness struck me like a blow."

"Once for all; I knew to be true."

"I must hold the memory of our parting in a grave and solemn thought."

"I took the opportunity of being alone, first to change my clothes and secondly to compose my feelings."

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

"It may be that you are not to blame for the circumstances of your birth."

"I have been thinking, that when you came into my life and asked me to teach you, I began for the first time to think of myself as a sort of good influence."

"Whatever I do, I do it in a dogged way."

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

"I am afraid I am a coarse, common boy, and that the conditions of my life have been a very poor soil for any niceties I may have acquired."

"I saw in her face a reflection of all my hopes and fears"

"There is no remedy for the past but to make it useful"

"I have learned that true gentleness comes from within"

"I could not help but feel that we were meant to meet"

"I have been thinking of you constantly"

"The knowledge that she was never truly happy stayed with me"

"I am not one to despair"

"There was a stage in her life when she might have been happy"