“When she had delight in her heart, her face transcended all her suffering, whereupon the scars and the deformed features and the mottled skin became the remarkable face of a hero and the cherished face of a friend.”

“(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)”

“She loved his laughter. She loved that he faced the world with a reckless smile on his scarred face. Her heart crashed against her chest. A revelation descended. A revelation unrelated to the desire heating her blood.”

“she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.”

“I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.”

“She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”