Emma Bovary

"She longed for passionate love like that found in the novels she read."

"Love should be a grand passion, not a quiet domestic arrangement."

"She yearned for a life of elegance and distinction."

"There is in me something deeper than all these waters!"

"What a miserable thing to be a woman!"

"She wished she could have lived in some old manor-house."

"Mediocrity is the worst curse of humanity."

"She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live."

"What did it matter that she had been deceived in love?"

"The provincial mind is incapable of grandeur."

"Every attempt at happiness is punished by fate."

"Why had she married? Why not?"

"Desire, always desire!"

"What is the good of beauty if it brings only suffering?"

"What cruel fate had placed her here?"

"Love, she believed, would transform everything."

"She believed that love would conquer all obstacles."

"She was tired of loving without return."

"Dreams are the only escape from this miserable existence."

"Duty and desire can never be reconciled."

"Memory is more precious than reality."

"The heart demands what reason forbids."

"The convent and marriage are prisons of different kinds."

"What a miserable thing to be a woman! And yet we are nothing but slaves bound to the whims of men."

"She would have liked to be born a man."

"What is a woman but a mirror reflecting the desires of men?"

"What is fidelity but the jailer's key?"

"What a miserable thing to be a woman!"

"Illusions are the only realities."

"Why had she not a husband who understood her?"