Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Quotes

• “Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected t...”
• “You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, yo...”
• “But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far ...”
• “The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in ...”