“It was as if Tutankhamen or Miss Havisham had wandered into the pub one night and started bitching about the head on… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“My name is on the first leaf. If you can ever write under my name, "I forgive her," though ever so long… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Ama-a, ama-a, ama-a. Se ela favorecer-te, ama-a. Se ela ferir-te, ama-a. Se ela te despedaçar o coração, que à medida que envelhecer… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All got really plastered after that. Was completely fantastic evening. As Tom said, if Miss Havisham had had some jolly flatmates to… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“When I had been in Mr. Pocket’s family a month or two, Mr. and Mrs. Camilla turned up. Camilla was Mr. Pocket’s… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“In my own single bed, I know. I know its width and length in hand spans and kicks and there is no… — Toni Jordan Copy Share Image
“I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens you know than… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“You have always been dazzling - the life of every party, the glamour girl who dances until dawn." "Well, I am. But… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I prayed for help to put the sadness and disappointment of my defeat behind me; to stay hopeful and openhearted rather than… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
