Review of Great Expectations (2012) by Pedro C — 22 May 2016

By my unassisted self.

The bad habit of living.

When my baby intelligence was receiving the first distortions from my parents' wasting hands.

What wind blows you here?

If I had turned myself upside down before drinking the wine could not have gone more direct to my head.

Throughout life our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we despise the most.

When he subsides into affection he calls me Pip and when he relapses into politeness he calls me Sir.

May I ask you a question?

Yes and I may decline to answer it. Put your question.

I never told you.

You have never told me when you have got your haircut but I have had the senses to perceive it.

You hit the nail on the head.

Moths and all sorts of ugly creatures hover about a lighted candle.

At last the old woman and the niece came in - the latter with a head not easily distinguishable from her dusty broom.

What can you do?

I can eat and drink... if you'll find the materials.

They may be of the same blood but, believe me, they are not of the same nature.