Eva
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Can anyone tell me where this quote is :"“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”" I read it on various platforms and it's attributed to Charles Dickens, but I've read the entire book and even did a ctrl-f on an epub version and it's nowhere to be found. Is it really in the book? And if not, how come everybody quotes it and attributes it to Miss Havisham?
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Tom
This quote does not appear in “Great Expectations” as so many memes and threads claim.
Loafeecat
I believe this quote is from David Copperfield, but can't confirm. But this quote totally fits that narrative.
Annie Belyak
I haven't found it either but on one website I saw it being mentioned in Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions) so maybe the edition matters? Also I discovered that there were two endings for the novel and I read the one where Estella didn't remarry but apparently in the other one she did and maybe the quote is from there?
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