More quotes by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
"I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!"
"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."
". . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . ."