Madame Bovary

"Life was not meant to be a simple domestic arrangement."

"Love, like a pretty flower, requires careful tending."

"She dreamed of everything except the life she was living."

"The monotony of her surroundings soon became unbearable."

"How strange it is that we can hate and love the same person!"

"She felt small and miserable in the midst of her existence."

"One should not touch one's idols; the gilt comes off in your hands."

"Words are inadequate to express what lies in the heart."

"She was always seeking some satisfaction of her desires, and yet never obtaining it."

"There is in the human heart a constant need for heroism and self-sacrifice."

"She had lived a lie that destroyed her."

"Nothing had turned out as she had imagined."

"She was a victim of her own expectations."

"The heart desires what the mind cannot understand."

"She had gambled with her life and lost."

"Love, true love, was merely an invention."

"Her mistakes were the price of her illusions."

"She had sought paradise and found only thorns."

"The world had no place for dreamers like her."

"Her passion consumed her like a flame."

"What good is virtue when one is suffering?"

"She had destroyed herself with her own hands."

"The distance between her and happiness seemed unbridgeable."

"She believed love would transform her life."

"Her beauty was her only weapon in this world."

"Duty had never been her strong point."

"She wanted to live dangerously, recklessly, freely."

"Her life was a succession of false hopes."

"Marriage had proved to be a disappointment."

"She was consumed by a desire that nothing could satisfy."