Books Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Something in her was changing as she read the books. Life after life flashed before her eyes, yet she stayed safe from misery. And…

— Louise Erdrich

She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she--…

— Brandon Sanderson

“She had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and that didn't deter her. On the contrary it strengthened her determination to be true to herself,…

— Diane Ackerman

“Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose…

— Baroness Orczy

“She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right…

— Han Kang

“This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from the fact that she had never…

— Thornton Wilder

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent…

— Henry James

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were…

— Kate Chopin

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they…

— Christina Rossetti

“She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired…

— Toni Morrison

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

— Edith Wharton