Did Pip say this?

[Antonia]

A friend of mine told me that Pip said "we live forever in friends", but I cannot find this quote. Did he say this or anything like it? Can you Dickens aficionados help me here?

[Peter]

Hi Antonia

The phrase “ever best of friends” was said by Joe the blacksmith to Pip.

[John]

Ah, Joe Gargery. One of my favorites in all of Dickens.

[Tristram]

Yes, Peter, that is the closest to the sentiment expressed in the initial post it gets in GE as far as I remember.

To whom could Pip have said "We live forever in friends"? To Herbert Pocket, maybe? Or, more wistfully, to Estella? I can't lay my finger on a definite quote, though.

[Antonia]

Thank you for helping here!