allourdesires: Not the First Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert She repeated to herself, “I have
allourdesires: Not the First Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert She repeated to herself, “I have a lover! I have a lover!” and the thought gave her a delicious thrill, as though she were beginning a second puberty… She was entering a marvelous realm in which everything would be passion, ecstasy and rapture; she was surrounded by vast expanses of bluish space, summits of intense feeling sparkled before her eyes, and everyday life appeared far below in the shadows between these peaks -- source link