Excerpt from "Madame Bovary"
As for Emma, she didn't think she was in love with him. Love,
she believed, should arrive all at once with thunder and lightning
-- a whirlwind from the skies that affects life, turns it every
which way, wrests resolutions away like leaves, and plunges
the entire heart into an abyss. She did not know that rain forms lakes
on house terraces when the gutters are stopped up, and she remained
secure in her ignorance until she suddenly discovered a crack in the wall.
Mary Jane Olivelli, Reflections in the Surf