Honoré de Balzac Quote

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

A Woman at Thirty (ed. The Floating Press, 2011) - ISBN: 9781775453598