Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)

"Death seemed preferable to the life she had to live."

"She had no one to blame but herself for her predicament."

"Her last act was one of escape from unbearable reality."

"She died as she lived—in pursuit of an impossible dream."

"The world is indifferent to our longings."

"What is a woman without dreams? Everything. What is she with them? Nothing."

"She had exhausted all her chances at happiness by chasing the wrong ones."

"Her tragedy was in wanting too much from a world that offers so little."

"She was a victim of her own expectations."

"Romance had poisoned her mind against reality."

"She had sought eternity in moments and found only emptiness."

"Her story is the story of a soul that would not accept its fate."

"She learned too late that passion without wisdom is self-destruction."

"Life had offered her a simple happiness, but she demanded the impossible."

"Her legacy was a cautionary tale of unfulfilled desires."

"In her death, she found what her life could never provide: peace."

"She was the embodiment of a generation's disillusionment with life itself."

"She was tired of love already."

"Illusion is the queen of the human heart."

"She had read Paul and Virginia, and she had dreamed of the bamboo cottage."

"Words are instruments worn smooth by vulgar usage."

"He loved her all the more for her resistance."

"The heart, like the fruit, must ripen before it can be enjoyed."

"One never tires of that which one has desired."

"She had loved him because he loved her."

"Her life seemed to have reached its crisis."

"She sought in the accident a pretext for happiness."

"He was incapable of understanding those delicacies of feeling."

"She had read too many novels."

"There is always something exasperating in the completeness of other people's happiness."