I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-20T21:49:14+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Guilt, Regret, Remorse, Shame| Read More
All the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-16T22:52:38+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Abuse| Read More
What I suffered outside was nothing to what I underwent within. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-20T21:50:28+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Conscience, Guilt, Nerves, Nervousness, Remorse, Torment, Worry| Read More
However fast I went, I couldn’t warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-13T20:42:02+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Cold| Read More
Instead of my running at everything, everything seemed to run at me. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T20:29:28+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Conscience, Guilt, Nerves, Nervousness, Worry| Read More
The effort of resolution necessary to the achievement of this purpose I found to be quite awful. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T20:29:47+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Conscience, Fear, Guilt, Nerves, Nervousness, Worry| Read More
I often served as a connubial missile. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-07T16:40:44+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Abuse, Child Abuse, Childhood, Domestic Violence| Read More
My first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-04T07:44:38+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Reading, Shorthand| Read More
His eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-04T07:44:13+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Eyes, Fear, Looking, Menacing, Nerves, Nervousness, Staring, Threats| Read More
I am not at all happy as I am. I am disgusted with my calling and with my life. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-30T21:14:05+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class, Emotions, Happiness, Self-doubt| Read More
He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy! The Circumlocution Office2022-10-12T15:59:40+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class, Contempt, Haughty, Humiliation| Read More
You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-06T20:01:39+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Love| Read More
What would it signify to me, being coarse and common, if nobody had told me so! The Circumlocution Office2022-10-12T21:02:51+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class| Read More
She put the mug down on the stones of the yard, and gave me the bread and meat without looking at me, as insolently as if I were a dog in disgrace. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-12T21:03:29+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class, Contempt, Dogs, Haughty, Humiliation| Read More
I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. The Circumlocution Office2022-09-12T10:46:50+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Emotions, Love| Read More
