Quotes from book
Mouchette

Name: Mouchette
Author: Georges Bernanos

Georges Bernanos Original title Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette (French, 1937)

Mouchette is a 1937 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. It tells the story of a 14-year-old peasant girl who is raped and has a number of humiliating encounters. The novel's theme of misery was inspired by Bernanos' experiences from the Spanish Civil War. The book was published in English in 1966, translated by J. C. Whitehouse.

“Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.”

Georges Bernanos book Mouchette

Source: Mouchette