Great Expectations

"I am afraid I am not quite of your opinion. I think that youth is the time to go fluttering about one stalk and then settle."

"I understood at last what it meant to be truly humble."

"Herbert had come to my aid when I most needed it."

"I was straining against the very chains that bound me to her."

"I had come to see it all now as one vast mistake."

"I felt that every stone of the street would know my history."

"We slipped our hands together, and I held her quite close."

"She had been made to order for me like a doll."

"I became conscious of a change in the air around me."

"I thought of her often in the night."

"There was something more in the interview than had passed between us."

"I have often wished that I could be as like myself."

"What does it matter? It is done, and cannot be undone."

"I felt myself to be driftwood."

"The stars are scarcely brighter than her diamonds."

"I had believed that I was not worthy of her."

"I knew how powerful a thing it was to be made a gentleman."

"The best that I could do was to love her."

"I was always treated as if I were monstrously ungrateful."

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

"I never looked at her without seeing her as she had been then."

"Be as cagey as a lawyer."

"What is due goes out of this world the moment we come into it."

"I was now as miserable as I could be."

"The admiration I had conceived for my godmother had been cooled."

"I am not at rest, and shall not be so long as I live."

"She gave me her hand; I held it and drew her to my side."

"I had never been in a state of composition since the hurried departure of the convict."

"All the romance was gone from my life."

"I felt that I had done wrong in taking the convict's hand."