Madame Bovary

"Her last act was one of escape from unbearable reality."

"She had no one to blame but herself for her predicament."

"Death seemed preferable to the life she had to live."

"She had confused romance with love, and love with life itself."

"Her infidelity was born of desperation, not malice."

"She could not be satisfied because she did not know what she wanted."

"Love affairs were her currency of rebellion."

"She had built castles in the air that could not withstand reality."

"The piano in her room was her only companion in loneliness."

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

"Provincial life was her prison."

"She was beautiful, but beauty could not save her."

"Her desires grew like a disease she could not cure."

"She searched everywhere for something that could only be found within."

"Love had consumed her as fire consumes wood."

"She was a woman trapped between the world of fantasy and cold reality."

"Her passion was her downfall."

"She had painted her dreams in colors that could never match reality."

"The reality of life was far crueler than any novel."

"She had sacrificed everything for a love that did not exist."

"Debt was the shadow that followed her every step."

"She borrowed and spent with reckless abandon."

"Money seemed the key to all her desires."

"She pursued pleasure as if it were salvation."

"The world had deceived her with its promises."

"Her heart yearned for what her circumstances could not provide."

"She mistook nervousness for love."

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

"She felt suffocated by the quiet contentment of her husband."

"Marriage seemed to her a lottery."