Madame Bovary

"The truth is often too terrible to bear."

"Happiness is always elsewhere, never where we are."

"She was consumed by a fire that could never be extinguished."

"The heart demands what society forbids."

"Hope is the most deceptive of all human emotions."

"She saw in others only what she wished to see."

"What is marriage but a trap for the unwary?"

"The pursuit of pleasure often leads to ruin."

"She believed that love would conquer all obstacles."

"Beauty without happiness is the cruelest torture."

"The world is full of people dying of boredom."

"She had tasted paradise, and now all else was ash."

"Her imagination was more real to her than truth itself."

"The cruelty of fate is that it crushes the innocent."

"She sought in books what life could not give her."

"What difference does it make? All is vanity."

"Love, she believed, would transform everything."

"She was not made for the ordinary life that society demanded."

"The monotony of existence was killing her slowly."

"Reality is always disappointing compared to imagination."

"She dreamed of distant lands where passion knew no bounds."

"How strange is the effect of similarity upon the human heart!"

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"She had exhausted all possibilities, and now there remained only despair."

"Illusion is the queen of the human heart."

"She was lost in the labyrinth of her own desires."

"Nothing satisfied her restless spirit."

"She was a woman meant for tragedy."

"Reality could never match her dreams."

"She was her own worst enemy."