Gabrielle Roy Quotes

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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable. - Gabrielle Roy quote.
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
— Gabrielle Roy Where Nests the Water Hen

joy

Is it not strange that love, so fickle, is ranked above friendship, almost always so worthy? - Gabrielle Roy quote.
Is it not strange that love, so fickle, is ranked above friendship, almost always so worthy?
— Gabrielle Roy La Detresse et L’enchantement

friendship love

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once. - Gabrielle Roy quote.
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
— Gabrielle Roy

success loneliness

I cannot conceive how a novelist could fail to pity or love the smallest creation of his imagination; incomplete as these characters may be, they are the writer's bond with the real world, its suffering and heartbreak. - Gabrielle Roy quote.
I cannot conceive how a novelist could fail to pity or love the smallest creation of his imagination; incomplete as these characters may be, they are the writer's bond with the real world, its suffering and heartbreak.
— Gabrielle Roy The Fragile Lights Of Earth: Articles And Memories 1942–1970

writing