"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
"What greater gift than the love of a cat."
"Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough com..."
"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."
"And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am,..."
"The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew ..."