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  1. Charles Dickens _ Great Expectations

    She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
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  2. Charles Dickens _ Great Expectations

    So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
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  3. Charles Dickens _ Great Expectations

    Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
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  4. Charles Dickens _ Great Expectations

    We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
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  5. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won'tbe disappointed."If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough. From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, totake what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. I'dbeen kept prisoner, held captive by greed. I'd been betrayed,deceived, tied to, used, poisoned ... but all that was over now.
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