Great Expectations

Important Quotes

"I begin to think," said Estella, in a musing way, after another moment of calm wonder, "that I almost understand how this comes about." (chapter 39-39)

"Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s a goldsmith, and one’s a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come. . . ." (chapter 27-35)

“I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him
what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the battery, early
in the morning…..Say, Lord strike you dead if you don’t!” (page 4)

“…..my convict looked
round him for the first time, and saw me. I had alighted from Joe’s back on the
brick of the ditch when we came up, and had not moved since. I looked at him
eagerly when he looked at me, and slightly moved my hands and shook my head. I had
been waiting for him to see me, that I might try to assure him of my innocence.”
(page 36)

“Dear Magwitch, I
must tell you, now at last. You understand what I say?.....You had a child
once, whom you loved and lost. ….She lived and found powerful friends. She is
living now She is a lady and very beautiful. And I love her!” (page 464-465)

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