“I love – I adore – Estella…I have never left off adoring her. And she has come back, a most beautiful and most elegant creature. And I saw her yesterday. And if I adored her before, I now doubly adore her.”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 30. Pip’s passionate declaration to friend Herbert of his complete adoration for Estella marks an important moment in his emotional journey. The painful character of obsessive and unrequited love is highlighted by his intense feelings for her.