Quotes

Dialogue

Ugolin: Is that why you rented this old farm? Jean: I didn't rent it. Ugolin: Did you buy it? Jean: I didn't buy it either, but it's all mine. Ugolin: You're not Jean de Florette, are you? Jean: I'm Jean, and my mother was Florette. But my real name is Jean Cadoret. Ugolin: If you'd been born here, it would be Jean de Florette.

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Cesar: Now let's talk about other things. I'm going to write to Scratcher. Ugolin: Who's she? Cesar: You don't know her because she left here before you were born. She had the body of an angel. They called her Scratcher because when the boys tried to kiss her she scratched their faces. She used to sharpen her nails especially. But because of this she ended up a spinster and when her parents died she went to work for the priest at Mimet. About 4 or 5 years ago the pope moved him to Crespin and she should still be with him. Ugolin: So long as she didn't scratch him. Cesar: Oh, at her age you don't scratch people, and because she was a friend of Florette she must still visit her. I'm going to write immediately. Ugolin: And if she's dead? Cesar: Not everyone my age is dead.

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Jean: [shouting at the sky, as rainclouds he'd hoped for are blocked by the hills] I'm a hunchback! Have you forgotten that? Do you think that's easy? Aimee: Jean... Jean: Isn't there no one, anybody up there? There's nobody up there! I'm a hunchback! Do you think that's easy? There's nobody up there.