My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richn…

- Gabrielle Roy

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere…

- Gabrielle Roy

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the les…

- Gabrielle Roy

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight…

- Gabrielle Roy

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

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

- Gabrielle Roy

Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

- Gabrielle Roy

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

- Gabrielle Roy

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

- Gabrielle Roy