كلُّ شيء، حتى نفسها، صار لا يُطاق عندها. وتمنّت لو أنها، تنهض كطائرٍ وتُحلّق، تطير إلى مكانٍ بعيد، إلى أقاليم الطهر، فتعود هناك شابّةً من جديد.

“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”Gustave Flaubert — The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence (2015)