The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My dear Michael, I have given you my heart. I have said that I loved you, and I have pledged myself to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Of course I was in love with little Em'ly. I am sure I loved that baby quite as truly, quite as tenderly,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospects of Life and brightened it so much that is scarcely seemed the same.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Every day of his life he had a long sitting at the Memorial, which never made the least progress, however hard he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You are part of my existence, part of myelf. You have been in every line I ever read, since I first came… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
