Melody

“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder and reality, trying to reconcile the two in her enormous, inarticulate heart. Madame Bovary, c'est toi, perhaps, dear reader. Madame Bovary, c'est tout le monde.”
― Antonia Quirke, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers

“Her room felt wonderful to her, as usual. She looked around with satisfaction… She imagined to herself that she would always live this way, even after she had grown up and moved away from her family. She planned to have exactly the same room wherever she was, because this room was her. No matter what happened out there in the rest of the world, she felt totally comfortable once she got into this room and closed the door.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Nobody's Family Is Going to Change

“Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.”
― Antonia Quirke, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers

“Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience. The voracity it breeds! That quantity of quiddity compressed and quickened and sent at you! It's a little bit mad, isn't it, to hold a faithful flame for the one you've picked, when no such choice is required of you? The sane response to a rainbow is not to pick your favourite colour.”
― Antonia Quirke, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers