Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)

"She loved the lover more than she loved the man"

"Despair follows hope as surely as night follows day"

"A sensitive soul in a commonplace world is a tragedy waiting to happen"

"She sought in adultery what marriage could not give her"

"The beautiful things in life are those we cannot have"

"Debt is the shadow that follows pleasure"

"She was a woman caught between two worlds, belonging to neither"

"Romance makes fools of even the wisest women"

"The real tragedy is not death, but unfulfilled life"

"She had mistaken nervousness for passion and longing for love"

"Every affair begins with hope and ends in ash"

"The greatest cruelty is to give someone exactly what they desire"

"She read of great loves and lived a small life"

"Vanity and desire are the roots of all suffering"

"What seems like freedom is often merely another form of captivity"

"The heart knows no logic, only appetite"

"She was destroyed not by her lovers, but by her own expectations"

"All passion eventually becomes routine"

"There is no remedy for a heart that desires the impossible"

"Life's greatest jest is that we cannot see our own blindness"

"She had loved not a man, but the dream of transcendence he represented"