The new flower sprang from the deep-planted and long-cherished root, she knew. Every gentle word that had fallen from the lips of the beautiful lady, sounded to Florence like an echo of the voice long hushed and silent. How could she love that memory less for living tenderness, when it was her memory of all parental tenderness and love! ~ Dombey and Son
If a dread of not
If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine – which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity – it is the key to many reservations. ~ Great Expectations
quite a good fellow
“Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.” ~ David Copperfield
The object of our lives
“The object of our lives is won. Henceforth let us wear it silently. My lips are closed upon the past from this hour. I forgive you your part in to-morrow’s wickedness. May God forgive my own!” ~ Dombey and Son
Sadly sadly the sun rose
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning him-self to let it eat him away. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
There lives at least one
“There lives at least one being who can never change–one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness–who lives but in your eyes–who breathes but in your smiles–who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.” ~ The Pickwick Papers
Yes! you are the ruin
“Yes! you are the ruin–the ruin–the ruin–of me. I have no resources in myself, I have no confidence in myself, I have no government of myself when you are near me or in my thoughts. And you are always in my thoughts now. I have never been quit of you since I first saw you. Oh, that was a wretched day for me! That was a wretched, miserable day!” ~ Our Mutual Friend
So now, as an infallible
So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt. ~ Great Expectations
As to sleep you know
“As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don’t get any pay, and he’s got nothing on his mind.” ~ Dombey and Son
Her heart is given him
“Her heart–is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.” ~ Our Mutual Friend
