some lines from great expectations

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

♥ To me, parting is a painful thing. To me,
 the remembrance of our last parting
has been ever mournful and painful.

♥ I have often thought of you, of late, very often. 
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.

♥ All these things I saw without then knowing that I saw them,
for I was in an agony of apprehension.

♥ I collected a little more of my scattered wits.

♥ We were all very low, and none the
 higher for pretending to be in spirits.

♥ 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. 

♥  And the mists had all solemnly risen now,
 and the world lay spread before me.

 

♥-♥-♥ haven't really read the book yet, 'skimming for good lines though.