Great Expectations

"True strength lies in gentleness."

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

"Loyalty is rare and precious."

"I have learned to value what truly matters."

"The past cannot be undone."

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

"Money cannot buy everything."

"I have much to learn still."

"The heart knows what it wants."

"I am not made for happiness."

"All my life has been a struggle."

"You must not expect me to be anything other than what I am."

"I wish I could cancel the past."

"The pain of losing you is unbearable."

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

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

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

"The world is a hard place to live in."

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

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

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

"There is no shame in returning to where you began, humbled and wise."

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

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

"Bitterness is a poison that destroys the vessel that holds it."

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

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

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

"The forge was warm and safe, a place I had foolishly despised."

"She was my lodestar, though I knew I could never reach her."