Madame Bovary

"She had loved not a man, but the dream of transcendence he represented"

"Life's greatest jest is that we cannot see our own blindness"

"There is no remedy for a heart that desires the impossible"

"All passion eventually becomes routine"

"She was destroyed not by her lovers, but by her own expectations"

"The heart knows no logic, only appetite"

"What seems like freedom is often merely another form of captivity"

"Vanity and desire are the roots of all suffering"

"She read of great loves and lived a small life"

"The greatest cruelty is to give someone exactly what they desire"

"Every affair begins with hope and ends in ash"

"She had mistaken nervousness for passion and longing for love"

"The real tragedy is not death, but unfulfilled life"

"Romance makes fools of even the wisest women"

"She was a woman caught between two worlds, belonging to neither"

"Debt is the shadow that follows pleasure"

"The beautiful things in life are those we cannot have"

"She sought in adultery what marriage could not give her"

"A sensitive soul in a commonplace world is a tragedy waiting to happen"

"Despair follows hope as surely as night follows day"

"She loved the lover more than she loved the man"

"The past torments us only because we cannot change it"

"Passion speaks louder than virtue, especially in the heart of a woman"

"Art and novels had spoiled her for ordinary happiness"

"She had married not a man, but a disappointment"

"The provincial life suffocates those who dream of greatness"

"Love, when it comes, rarely arrives in the form we imagined"

"Her restlessness was a sickness without a cure"

"Reality is the great deceiver of the idealist"

"She had learned to love the idea of love more than love itself"