689 – “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

–Pip in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

621 – “I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well, but I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”

–David Copperfield in Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield

475 – “When suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”

–Estella Havisham in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations