“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”

—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don’t know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.”

—Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“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

“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.”

—Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

“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. ”

—Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.”

—David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
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