“I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.”
Source: Great Expectations
“He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.”
Source: Great Expectations
“I don't want to know anything. I am not curious!”
Source: Great Expectations
“Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.”
Source: Great Expectations
“The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.”
Source: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“This shit about being fearless before death ain't got no quality. How could you say you were fearless about leaving the party, even in stir—even franks and rice taste good when you're hungry, even an iron bar feels good to touch, it feels good to sleep. It's like a party even in maximum security and who wants to walk out of a party into something that nobody knows anything at all about?”
Source: Falconer
“She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
“Stella says the name for the house where she and Ms. Havisham live is Stasis, Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three to dub the domicile Enough House. In a healthy soul, this might mean contentment. Or, in seeing what we have as Enough, this can mean we are not open to vulnerability, generosity, or dependence on those who might threaten our Stasis.”
Source: Great Expectations
“He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams