Faith Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did…

— Gustave Flaubert

“If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself…

— Jane Austen

“He, who thought it necessary to maintain himself in her good graces, strove to console her under her disappointment by committing a little violence…

— Matthew Lewis

“Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting emotion, laughter, or thought.…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please,…

— Richard Yates

“He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time…

— India Drummond

“There was a dumb misery about him that irritated her; there was a manly staying of his hand that made her heart beat faster.…

— Henry James

“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within…

— Victor Hugo

“And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not…

— Zane Grey

“Where she was admittedly a little self absorbed he was generous. Where she was an emotional box of rocks ,he was stable.”

— Karla Telega

“But what troubled her was unutterable, and she could barely frame it for herself. Where he merely suffered conventional first-night nerves, she experienced a…

— Ian McEwan