Faith

“Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment?”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary