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“Love, she felt, ought to come all at once, with great thunderclaps and flashes of lightning; it was like a storm bursting upon life from the sky, uprooting it, overwhelming the will, and sweeping the heart into the abyss. It did not occur to her that rain forms puddles on a flat roof when the drainpipes are clogged, and she would have continued to feel secure if she had not suddenly discovered a crack in the wall.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“Everything was believed except the truth.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias