Madame Bovary

"The world is cruel to those who expect too much."

"Dreams are the only escape from this miserable existence."

"She desired everything except what she possessed."

"Marriage is a practical arrangement, nothing more."

"The heart, like the body, needs exercise."

"She was tired of loving without return."

"Fate had written her story long before she understood her own desires."

"She had always believed herself capable of extraordinary things."

"The only truth is that all human yearning is futile."

"She was the author of her own tragedy."

"Love promised everything and delivered nothing but sorrow."

"The world is a prison for those who think beyond its walls."

"She had murdered hope with her own hands."

"Nothing in life is as beautiful as we imagine it to be."

"The heart is a rebel against the mind's authority."

"She had chosen illusion over truth, and illusion had abandoned her."

"The ordinary world could never contain her extraordinary desires."

"Passion is a fire that consumes everything in its path."

"She was tragic, not because of her actions, but because of her nature."

"The beauty of art lies in its distance from reality."

"She understood too late that love and deception are often indistinguishable."

"The night holds secrets that the day cannot reveal."

"What she wanted was to be transformed, not to transform herself."

"She had always been a stranger in her own life."

"The permanence of happiness is an illusion."

"Money is the root of all disappointment."

"She lived in a world of her own creation."

"The soul yearns for what the body cannot possess."

"Virtue is merely the invention of the weak."

"She had thrown away everything for a moment of ecstasy."