Falling out of love Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“...and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able…

— Jane Austen

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“... the results of the irrevocable decisions in her life, the commitments she had leaped into without thought, with only the sure and perfect…

— Erica Bauermeister

“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

“He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination…

— Margaret Mitchell

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing. It so easily went out of control. It scaled walls…

— Celeste Ng

“Really, the insufferable conceit of the man. How dared he have the unutterable gall to know how her knees weakened at the sight of…

— Margaret Westhaven

“Painting for him, she had realized then, was neither a hobby nor just a way of earning a living. It was a passion and…

— Mary Balogh

“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

“But he had loved her, or thought he did, and that had brought her, sputtering and gasping, above the surface of his self-regard. The…

— Kij Johnson