“She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.”

—  Gabrielle Roy, book The Tin Flute

Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 84

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French Canadian fiction writer 1909–1983

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