Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)

"She had loved the idea of love more than love itself"

"Reality had never stood a chance against her imagination"

"She was not happy, and never had been happy."

"She loved him less and less."

"Money! She was always thinking of money."

"The more she revealed herself, the more she hid her true self."

"She had become a stranger to her own life."

"She dreamed of everything except her real life."

"Love, for her, was only a word."

"She was consumed by longings she could not name."

"Mediocrity was her prison."

"She had read too many novels."

"Her heart was elsewhere, always elsewhere."

"She was beautiful, but beauty could not save her."

"Lies had become as natural to her as breathing."

"She wanted to escape, but there was nowhere to go."

"The world was too small for her ambitions."

"She married without love and loved without marriage."

"Every happiness seemed to mock her."

"She was her own worst enemy."

"Reality could never match her dreams."

"She was a woman meant for tragedy."

"Nothing satisfied her restless spirit."

"She was lost in the labyrinth of her own desires."

"Illusion is the queen of the human heart."

"She had exhausted all possibilities, and now there remained only despair."

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

"How strange is the effect of similarity upon the human heart!"

"She dreamed of distant lands where passion knew no bounds."

"Reality is always disappointing compared to imagination."