"Long after I'd gone to bed that night, I thought of Estella and how common she would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith.…"

"As I watched Joe that Tuesday morning dressed grotesquely in a new suit, let me confess that if I could have kept him…"

"I went to Richmond yesterday to speak to Estella, Miss Havisham, and finding that some wind had blown her here, I fol…"

"I have something to tell you. Can you understand what I say? You had a child once who you loved and lost. She lived a…"

"Biddy, you have the best husband in the world. And, Joe, you've the best wife in the world."

"You may kiss me if you like. … Now you are to go home."

"Dear boy. … I thought you wasn't coming and yet I knew somehow that you would. … God bless you! You have never desert…"

"Come close. Look at me. You're not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?"

"Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule."

"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing…"