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Gabrielle Roy, po mężu Carbotte – kanadyjska pisarka francuskojęzyczna.

✵ 22. Marzec 1909 – 13. Lipiec 1983
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Gabrielle Roy: Cytaty po angielsku

“The sun was already a bright, running brook. From the gables of the houses hung sharp-pointed icicles, like gleaming crystal. From time to time one would break off with a snap, and crash at Rose-Anne's feet in shining shards. She progressed very slowly, afraid of falling, always seeking a hand-hold somewhere. Then she would be in soft snow again, which meant harder work but less fear of a slip and fall.”

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Gabrielle Roy książka The Tin Flute

Źródło: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 94

“Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”

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Gabrielle Roy, in the back of the Canadian $20 bill (On September 29, 2004, the Bank of Canada issued a $20 bank note in the Canadian Journey Series which included a quotation from Gabrielle Roy book The Hidden Mountain- La Montagne secrète - 1961)

“This is my wedding day! The day I marry Emmanuel! And the word "wedding," which she had always linked the happiness, now seemed austere, distressing, full of snares and revelations. She saw her mother, heavy and moving with difficulty. A vision of herself as a victim of the same deformity was vivid in her mind.”

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Gabrielle Roy książka The Tin Flute

Źródło: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 342

“Finally anger took possession of him. It was his turn to ask the question already raised by so many others: We, down there, the ones who join up, we're giving everything we have to give, maybe our arms and our two legs. He looked up at the high grills, the curving driveways, the sumptuous facades, and completed his thought: Are these people giving all they have to give?”

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Gabrielle Roy książka The Tin Flute

Źródło: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 319-320

“He saw a tree in a backyard, its branches tortured among electric wires and clotheslines, its leaves dry and shriveled before they were fully out. Low in the sky, dark clouds heralded the storm.”

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Gabrielle Roy książka The Tin Flute

Źródło: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 383.

“It began to rain harder. The last snow was under attack by these heavy, wide-spaced drops. All that remained underfoot of months of frost and freezing was a light crust that crumbled as he walked. The sidewalk was soon completely washed by this slow, tenacious rain. Its smooth, shining surface reflected the midnight lights and tangles of naked branches.”

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Gabrielle Roy książka The Tin Flute

Źródło: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 210

“Rose-Anna was tugging at the edge of her apron with a tired, futile gesture she had never made in the past – the grandmother’s gesture.”

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Gabrielle Roy książka The Tin Flute

Źródło: The Tin Flute (1945), P.260

“Why did she have to wake up this morning? Or ever! But especially this morning. Her stare took on a glint of panic. Then she thought: Oh! This is my wedding day!”

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Gabrielle Roy książka The Tin Flute

Źródło: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 342

“Azarius, for his part, had not made her voyage to the depths of pain to understand that death and birth, in that place, have almost the same tragic meaning.”

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Gabrielle Roy książka The Tin Flute

Źródło: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 367

“Florentine… Florentine Lacasse… half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery, the young man murmured.”

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Gabrielle Roy książka The Tin Flute

Źródło: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 27