Madame Bovary

"The promises of lovers are written on water."

"Memory is more precious than reality."

"He endured rather than lived."

"Society judges women by impossible standards."

"She was trapped between two worlds, belonging to neither."

"Desire outlasts affection by years."

"The truth is often too ugly to bear."

"Faith is what the weak use to console themselves."

"She gathered lovers as others gather flowers."

"Happiness is a pursuit that ends in despair."

"He lived as though life owed him nothing."

"The past haunts us more than the present torments us."

"Love requires sacrifice, which she was unwilling to give."

"She was a victim of her own imagination."

"Art provides no sustenance for the body or soul."

"He mistook silence for agreement."

"Duty and desire can never be reconciled."

"She sought in others what she lacked within herself."

"Passion is a disease of the heart."

"The provincial life suffocates the imaginative spirit."

"She confused sentiment with virtue."

"He was content with mediocrity."

"Ambition destroys more lives than war ever could."

"She was beautiful, but beauty cannot sustain the soul."

"Money becomes the measure of all things."

"He loved her as one loves a possession, not a person."

"Reality never matches our imaginations."

"Books had ruined her mind with impossible fantasies."

"She mistook passion for devotion."

"Love is merely an invention of society."