“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.”Charles Dickens
“I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”Charles Dickens
“How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.”Charles Dickens
“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!”Charles Dickens
“From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way — Charles Darnay's way: the way of the love of a woman.”Charles Dickens
“The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.”Charles Dickens
“Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...”Charles Dickens
“Annual income: twenty pounds; annual expenditure: nineteen pounds six shillings — result: happiness. Annual income: twenty pounds; annual expenditure: twenty pounds and sixpence — result: misery.”Charles Dickens
“If great criminals told the truth (which, being great criminals, they do not) they would very rarely tell of their struggles against the crime. Their struggles are towards it. They buffet with opposing waves to gain the bloody shore, not to recede from it.”Charles Dickens
“The flowers that sleep by night opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.”Charles Dickens
“Being that rare sort of old girl who receives good to her arms without a hint that it might be better, and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.”Charles Dickens
“What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!”Charles Dickens
“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.”Charles Dickens
“Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.”Charles Dickens
“The New Year, like an infant heir to the whole world, was waited for with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.”Charles Dickens
