How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
As for sleep, he slept on a mattress without sheets—it was his abandoned marriage bed—or in the hammock, covered by his coat. (1.3)
Herzog doesn't do himself any favors when he retreats to his Berkshire house to stop thinking about his failed marriage to Madeleine. There are reminders of her all through the place, including the bed they used to share.
Quote #2
His friend, his former friend, Valentine, and his wife, his ex-wife Madeleine, had spread the rumor that his sanity had collapsed. Was it true? (1.6)
Madeleine didn't just divorce Herzog. She also got together with his best friend and tried to have Herzog committed to an asylum. How's that for a clean break?
Quote #3
Theirs was not a marriage that could last. Madeleine had never loved him. She was telling him that. (1.44)
Madeleine tells Herzog she never loved him, although she might just be saying that now that the love is gone. Her Aunt Zelda, for example, insists to Herzog that Madeleine loved him in the beginning. But that's the problem with love: it's tough to prove when it is or isn't there.