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Great Expectations

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian lit

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“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: broken, Heartbroken, Sadness

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Memories, Ignorance, Worth, Value

“You are part of my existence, part of myself.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Myself, Existence, Love

“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: coward, Right, Wrong

“Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before -- more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Tears, gentle, Awareness

“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Suffering, broken, strength, Teaching

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Hope, Happiness, Peace, Reason

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Literary Love Quotes, Love, Literature

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

Tagged: Charles Dickens, Summer