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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up. ~ Margaret Atwood
Emma Bovary quotes by Margaret Atwood
I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their lapdogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father's timely tear. Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
Emma Bovary quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand her better. She has a violent nostalgia, almost an infantile nostalgia, to be understood by the men surrounding her. I like her relentless fight for independence, her rebellion against the mediocre, and her quest for the sublime, even if she burns her wigs in the process. I like that Flaubert never judges her morally for her self-destructiveness, for her desperate attempt to satisfy her wildest desires and appetites. ~ Sophie Barthes
Emma Bovary quotes by Sophie Barthes
As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular. ~ Sophie Barthes
Emma Bovary quotes by Sophie Barthes
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity. ~ John Updike
Emma Bovary quotes by John Updike
Do we still hang people?" Henry asks, philosophically. When he doesn't get an answer, he adds, "If not, I'm bringing hanging back."
So that's what Justin Timberlake would sound like if he were a serial killer. ~ Emma Chase
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Chase
Julian: "Wikipedia knows about everything. It might be run by warlocks."
Emma: "You think that's what they do all day in the Spiral Labyrinth? Run Wikipedia?"
Julian: "I admit it seems like a letdown. ~ Cassandra Clare
Emma Bovary quotes by Cassandra Clare
I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. ~ Emma Thompson
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Thompson
We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at. ~ Emma Caulfield
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Caulfield
When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by. ~ Emma Forrest
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Forrest
Strange, isn't it?" he asks.
"Where life takes you and
how much can change. ~ Emma Cameron
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Cameron
I don't see the point, in making the point that you will never say or do something by doing what you said you would never do ... ???? ~ Emma Paul
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Paul
There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night. ~ Emma Donoghue
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Donoghue
Em, we've known each other five or six years now, but two years properly, as, you know, 'friends', which isn't that long but I think I know a bit about you and I think I know what your problem is. Here it is. I think you're scared of being happy, Emma. I think you think that the natural way of things is for your life to be grim and grey and dour and to hate your job, hate where you live, not to have success or money or God forbid a boyfriend. In fact, I think I'll go further and say that I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it. ~ David Nicholls
Emma Bovary quotes by David Nicholls
I want the possibility of forever wrapped in a hundred million moments. I want us. ~ Emma Nichols
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Nichols
Whatever it was her father wanted, Emma did not know how to provide it. She felt confused by what he did, and imagined the problem was a lack in her, rather than him. And there was something else:
My dad was always late when we had our meetings - i i never wanted to go in the first place, and then i'd be sitting and waiting, feeling so ugly and worthless because i wasn't worth being on time for . . .
One time when my father was late he said he fell asleep . . . I wouldn't let myself cry in front of him. ~ Carol Lee
Emma Bovary quotes by Carol Lee
Some women can handle a one-night stand. Others can't. And I have definitely been on the wrong end of those who can't. It ain't pretty. ~ Emma Chase
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Chase
Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly write a film?" - but now that I've got at least some experience in the film world, I'd absolutely love to do it again. ~ Emma Donoghue
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Donoghue
She closed her eyes, not really hearing the rest of what he murmured against her ear. All she knew was that it echoed everything that was in her heart. He was a surprise. Love was a surprise. And a surprise love between friends was the best kind of all. ~ Mary Jane Hathaway
Emma Bovary quotes by Mary Jane Hathaway
Life a continuous backing away from the edge. ~ Emma Cline
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Cline
Leaving. That was the word she liked to use. Not going away, which implied a return, but leaving, which implied a jet plane. ~ Emma Straub
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Straub
Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars? ~ Emma Thompson
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Thompson
An evolved Goddess is someone who has a conscious comprehension and awareness to life, a beauty in their mindful nature, and is a role model who seeks to drive forward conscious change. ~ Emma Mildon
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Mildon
How old are you?'
The question startled him. 'Earth and Air. There are times you are no more comfortable a companion than I am. The answer to that serves no conceivable purpose, and I refuse to give it to you.'
When I was a kid I read Black Beauty. There were horse-drawn cabs in that. Are you that old?'
Older, older, older. I shall not tell you, so you may as well leave off, my primrose.'
She snorted. 'I think that means I should give up. You've started sweet-talking.'
I am torn,' the phouka said, grinning, 'between responding, 'Oh, absolutely!' and 'What do you mean, started?' He grabbed her hand, dropped a kiss on the knuckles, and loped across the street. Eddi felt the touch of his mouth on her hand for an inexplicably long time. ~ Emma Bull
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Bull
Colleen; that was what the Irish seemed to call every young female ~ Emma Donoghue
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Donoghue
That was Emma - she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life and mine apart if it came out. Her little bit of power. ~ J.P. Delaney
Emma Bovary quotes by J.P. Delaney
I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table! ~ Emma Watson
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Watson
I can almost feel it in my own heart - the breaking of his. ~ Emma Chase
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Chase
No. There are no second chances in life, no rewind button. You don't get a do-over, so if you want something you have to run, smash into it and grab it with everything you have. You have to take it and hold onto it tightly before it's too late. ~ Emma Hart
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Hart
It was a sweet view-sweet to the eye and the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive. ~ Jane Austen
Emma Bovary quotes by Jane Austen
It was a time when I imagined getting married in a simple, wishful way. The time when someone promised to take care of you, promised they would notice if you were sad, or tired, or hated food that tasted like the chill of the refrigerator. Who promised their lives would run parallel to yours. My mother must have known and stayed anyway, and what did that mean about love? It was never going to be safe - all the mournful refrains of songs that despaired you didn't love me the way I loved you. ~ Emma Cline
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Cline
You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine. ~ Ransom Riggs
Emma Bovary quotes by Ransom Riggs
Kyle, its a toothbrush and some panties. Keep them. Wear them if you want. It's the only way you are getting back in my panties again. ~ Emma Nichols
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Nichols
I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human. ~ Emma Watson
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Watson
After the spasms die down, my arms come up around Kate, bringing our chests together and her
head against my neck. I feel her heartbeat start to return to normal. And then she's laughing, low and
satisfied.
"God ... that was so ... so ... "
Now I'm smiling too. "I know."
Earth shattering. Off the Richter Scale. Powerful enough to take out a small island country. ~ Emma Chase
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Chase
But from now on the Herondales owe the Carstairs. Okay? Remember that. ~ Cassandra Clare
Emma Bovary quotes by Cassandra Clare
I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand. ~ Emma Watson
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Watson
Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me. ~ Emma Tennant
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Tennant
Tragic deaths aren't avoidable. That's what Ezra said outside Sam's wake, and even though--to use Foster's phrasing--I didn't know anything about anything, I felt in this moment that Ezra was wrong. What often makes something tragic is that it can be avoided. ~ Emma Mills
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Mills
Good news is, we're annoying him. Bad news is, we're all going to die painfully. ~ Brandy Nacole
Emma Bovary quotes by Brandy Nacole
I did have a nice career in print, but traditional publishers don't always have the resources to create individualized marketing for their authors. Mine never figured out how to package books as hot as mine so that they found their full audience. Finally, I got frustrated enough over my lack of traction to walk away. ~ Emma Holly
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Holly
Maybe what I told her was a lie. Maybe I could be what she deserved. Maybe I could make the same teeth-clenching, sweat-pouring effort I'd put into my PT, and channel that into living blind, so that she wouldn't have to constantly be cleaning up after me, or dragging my ass out of the house. My endless black was never going to go away. That was certainty. But kissing Charlotte had been a burst of light streaking across it, like a comet.
Maybe. Maybe is gradations of darkness. The sweetest torture.
Maybe is hope. ~ Emma Scott
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Scott
Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed. ~ Emma Raveling
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Raveling
One must not give way altogether, and, because others have died, want to die too. You must pull yourself together, Monsieur Bovary. It will pass away. ~ Anonymous
Emma Bovary quotes by Anonymous
Yeah, but I kill myself training. It's just about all I do. I get up and train, and run and I split my hands on the punching bag, and I train for hours into the night, and I have to, because there is nothing else special about me and nothing else that matters. All there is, is training and finding out who killed my parents. Because they were the ones who thought I was special, and whoever took them away from me...What I have is trying. I can try harder than anyone else in the world. I can make revenge the only thing I have in my life. I can do that, because I have to. But it means it's all I have. ~ Cassandra Clare
Emma Bovary quotes by Cassandra Clare
I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature. ~ Emma Donoghue
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Donoghue
She wanted the world to stop and take notice before hobbling forward, forever changed. The problem was that no one seemed to be changed but her. ~ Emma Straub
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Straub
I don't have technique because I never learnt any. ~ Emma Thompson
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Thompson
It's about you. I always thought that you would need some time, you know, to grow up, but I think I just realized that it's never going to happen, not while I'm sitting around waiting for it. ~ Emma Straub
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Straub
A horse that loves and cares for a man was loved and cared for by a man! ~ Emma Bullington
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Bullington
I wondered, Why would you run with someone else? Why would you choose to share this intense, solitary activity, mile after mile, in sunshine and rain, alone with your thoughts, every step making you leaner, firmer, every mile taking you farther from the lazy, lethargic world? Like writing and eating, I couldn't stand to share my running. It was such a personal thing: a therapeutic punishment, a way to push, push, push myself. ~ Emma Woolf
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Woolf
We usually bring her helmet with us, but we left it back in the hotel room this time."
I gasp. I also try to decide what kind of flowers I'll bring to her funeral after I strangle the life from her body. I should have stayed in Jersey, like Mom said. Shouldn't have come here with Chloe and her parents. What business do I have in Florida? We live on the Jersey Shore. If you've seen one beach, you've seen them all, right?
But noooooooo. I had to come and spend the last of my summer with Chloe, because this would be our last summer together before college, blah-blah-blah. And now she's taking revenge on me for not letting her use my ID to get a tattoo last night. But what did she expect? I'm white and she's black. I'm not even tan-white. I'm Canadian-tourist white. If the guy could mistake her for me, then he shouldn't be giving anyone a tattoo, right? I was just protecting her. Only, she doesn't realize that. I can tell by that look in her eyes-the same look she wore when she replaced my hand sanitizer with personal lubricant-that she's about to take what's left of my pride and kick it like a donkey.
"Uh, we didn't get your name. Did you get his name, Emma?" she asks, as if on cue.
"I tried, Chloe. But he wouldn't tell me, so I tackled him," I say, rolling my eyes.
The guy smirks. This almost-smile hints at how breathtaking a real one would be. The tingling flares up again, and I rub my arms. ~ Anna Banks
Emma Bovary quotes by Anna Banks
But Emma. There was Emma. Maybe it wasn't so strange, what we could have. Maybe I could stay for a while and love her and then go home. But no. By the time I wanted to leave, it would be too late. She was a siren. I had to be strong. ~ Ransom Riggs
Emma Bovary quotes by Ransom Riggs
A fighter, muses Rachel, is a fighter through and through, consistently irregular, a fighting man on every scale. Fractal, fractious, with a rough complexity! Nothing she can do. A fractal, Papa once told her, is a way of seeing infinity.

In Zachariah, she sees infinity.

Mandelbrot famously wrote a paper called 'How Long Is the Coast of Britain?,' the answer to which, of course, is that it depends how you look at it. The closer one looks, the larger it is. And more and more intricate, on an infinite scale.

There is a template for all things. ~ Emma Richler
Emma Bovary quotes by Emma Richler
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