Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)

"The heart is a mystery that reason cannot solve."

"She was consumed by a desire that nothing could satisfy."

"Marriage had proved to be a disappointment."

"Her life was a succession of false hopes."

"She wanted to live dangerously, recklessly, freely."

"Duty had never been her strong point."

"Her beauty was her only weapon in this world."

"She believed love would transform her life."

"The distance between her and happiness seemed unbridgeable."

"She had destroyed herself with her own hands."

"Her passion consumed her like a flame."

"The world had no place for dreamers like her."

"She had sought paradise and found only thorns."

"Her mistakes were the price of her illusions."

"Love, true love, was merely an invention."

"She had gambled with her life and lost."

"The heart desires what the mind cannot understand."

"She was a victim of her own expectations."

"Nothing had turned out as she had imagined."

"She had lived a lie that destroyed her."

"There is in the human heart a constant need for heroism and self-sacrifice."

"She was always seeking some satisfaction of her desires, and yet never obtaining it."

"Words are inadequate to express what lies in the heart."

"One should not touch one's idols; the gilt comes off in your hands."

"She felt small and miserable in the midst of her existence."

"How strange it is that we can hate and love the same person!"

"The monotony of her surroundings soon became unbearable."

"She dreamed of everything except the life she was living."

"She had become tired of virtue."

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."