Madame Bovary

"He was incapable of understanding those delicacies of feeling."

"She sought in the accident a pretext for happiness."

"Her life seemed to have reached its crisis."

"All women are like that."

"She had loved him because he loved her."

"Mediocrity is the worst curse of humanity."

"One never tires of that which one has desired."

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

"The heart, like the fruit, must ripen before it can be enjoyed."

"He loved her all the more for her resistance."

"Words are instruments worn smooth by vulgar usage."

"She had read Paul and Virginia, and she had dreamed of the bamboo cottage."

"Illusion is the queen of the human heart."

"What a miserable thing to be a woman!"

"She was tired of love already."

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

"She was the embodiment of a generation's disillusionment with life itself."

"In her death, she found what her life could never provide: peace."

"Her legacy was a cautionary tale of unfulfilled desires."

"Life had offered her a simple happiness, but she demanded the impossible."

"She learned too late that passion without wisdom is self-destruction."

"Her story is the story of a soul that would not accept its fate."

"She had sought eternity in moments and found only emptiness."

"Romance had poisoned her mind against reality."

"She was a victim of her own expectations."

"Her tragedy was in wanting too much from a world that offers so little."

"She had exhausted all her chances at happiness by chasing the wrong ones."

"What is a woman without dreams? Everything. What is she with them? Nothing."

"The world is indifferent to our longings."

"She died as she lived—in pursuit of an impossible dream."