A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
A Tale of Two Cities Bk.1, Ch.3, p.15

In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?
A Tale of Two Cities Bk.1, Ch.3, p.16

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low
A charming quote from one of the elite...don't worry he was killed soon afterA Tale of Two Cities Bk.2, Ch.9, p.126

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brigns them up, there is nothing so finely percieved and so finely felt as injustice. It may only be a small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
Great Expectations Ch. 8, p. 64

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think ohow different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Great Expectations Ch. 9, p. 72

...a spectacle of imbecility only to be equalled by himself.
Great Expectations Ch. 12, p. 92

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.
Yeah I call it junior high. Great Expectations Ch. 14, p. 102

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Great Expectations Ch. 19, p. 145

...throughout our life our worst weakness and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Great Expectations Ch. 27, p. 196

But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more; that, in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will reverse the appointed order of their Maker...
In other words, we're made to live life, for better or worse and take the pain with the happiness...don't shut anything out!! Great Expectations Ch. 49, p. 348

I have forgotten nothing in my life that ever had a foremost place there, and little that ever had any place there...
Don't worry...I mean that in the good way Great Expectations Ch. 59 p. 419

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