Great Expectations

"I had become a man unworthy of my former companions."

"The truth about my origins changed everything."

"I discovered the strength I did not know I possessed."

"The expectations of others can crush the spirit."

"I learned that true gentleness comes from within."

"Our relationship was built upon pretense."

"I was tortured by the thought of what I might have been."

"Gratitude is the measure of a man's character."

"I understood the real nature of my feelings."

"The past will always return to haunt us."

"One cannot be at peace without understanding oneself."

"I felt that I was growing desperate."

"The power of money cannot be overestimated."

"There is no understanding without love."

"I was frightened by the strangeness of the place."

"Ambition is the curse of great minds."

"It is not my intention to inflict myself upon you."

"I had never known happiness till now."

"Great expectations indeed!"

"She treated my love with supreme indifference."

"I had never known what struggle was until I was borne away from the village."

"It may be that you were meant for me."

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me."

"I must do something of an active nature."

"There is nothing more painful than to be conscious of your own weakness."

"All partings foreshadow death."

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

"The world was not then half so large and complicated to me."

"I was always treated as if I were wicked."

"You don't know what it is to want a thing when every fibre of your being is straining after it."