Great Expecations

I've read this book twice. Once when I was a little girl and all I remembered was the pretty Estella. Now I read the book again to remember what was the story of this pretty girl and I can see that there's much more to remeber.

“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.” 

“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.” 

“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” 

“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.” 

“So throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.” 

“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” 

“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” 

“I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt” 

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”