Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs Quotes

“Manon," said the hunchback gravely, "it's your thoughts that are nasty. This gentleman gave us the tiles we were missing, so every time it rains we should recognize it and give him a little thanks.”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

“Our judgments are always too hasty, and souls are truly separated when love does not unite them. I was wrong in my reckoning of that man.”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

“The encounter with Ugolin had revived the past -- not that she had forgotten it, but her keen, youthful joy of living, which so quickly caused foreign bodies to be expelled, softened the contours of the bad memories and obscured the cruel colors, and ended by giving them the unreality of a story read in a book.”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

“Ah, yes, it's the Soubeyrans...Three mad, three hanged, and me all alone with a no-good leg....And nobody after me...Nobody, nobody, nobody...”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

“Tears rose to her eyes. It was the water of the hills, which could have saved her father, and instead wasted its richness in the sterile rocks and the subterranean night...”
― marcel pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

“If only she would let me talk to her! I'm sure I could change her mind...That's what is needed, to change her mind. But how?”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

“She reads books all the time. Sometimes for an hour without stopping!"
"That's not too good, Galinette. A poor girl who reads books—I can't say I care for that...”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

“Her sea-blue eyes shone behind curls that hid her brow, and all her face had that vivid radiance that is retained by ripe nectarines for only a day, but glows for three or four years on the smooth cheeks of young girls.”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

“In the solitary farmhouse of the hills there was a great joy in life, much tenderness, and much hope.”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

“He lived in the ancient house where he was born, at the bottom of a vallon in the hills, three hundred meters from Massacan, surrounded by a pine wood, the silence of solitude, the odor of resin, and the perfume of rosemary.”
― Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs