The Snow Goose-A Story of Dunkirk Quotes Unforgettable Moments

Before starting to read quotes it is better to give some information about the book and film. 

If you  haven't read The Snow Goose yet ...What Are You Waiting For?

I wish this book come to life on screen again maybe Netflix, Amazon or other companies take into consideration to realize as movie or tv series.

The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk is a novella by the American author Paul Gallico. It was first published in 1940 as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post, after which he expanded it to create a short novella which was published on 7 April 1941.

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The Snow Goose is a simple, short written parable on the regenerative power of friendship and love, set against a backdrop of the horror of war. It documents the growth of a friendship between Philip Rhayader, an artist living a solitary life in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands of Essex because of his disabilities, and a young local girl, Fritha.

“The Snow Goose”  is a British television drama film starring Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter was filmed at the end of Island Lane in Kirby-le-Soken and released in 1971.

It won a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Film and  it was also nominated for a nine Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for Jenny Agutter for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama. The film was shown in the United States on 15 November 1971 as part of the anthology series Hallmark Hall of Fame.[1]

The Snow Goose-A Story of Dunkirk  Quotes Unforgettable Moments

@Snow Goose, Penguin Books pg 18

Frith: The girl placed it in his arms. ' I found it, sir. It's hurted. Is it still alive?'

Rhayader: 'Yes. Yes, I think so. Come in, child, come in.'

Rhayader: 'We will call her "La Princesse Perdue," the  Lost Princess. And in a few days she will be feeling much better.'

Rhayader: 'Will you come back tomorrow, or the nezt day, to see how the Princess is getting along? '

Frith: "Look! Look! The Princess! Be she going away?"

Rhayader: "The Princess is going home. Listen! she is bidding us farewell."

"With the departure of the snow goose ended the visits of Frith to the lighthouse. Rhayader learned al over again the meaning of the word 'loneliness'. "

Rhayader: "She'll stay. She will never go away again. The Lost Princess is lost no more. This is her home now--of her own free will.”

Rhayader: "Frith! I am glad you came. Yes, I must go away. A little trip. I will come back."

Frith: "Where must ye go?"

Rhayader: "A British army was trapped there on the advancing Germans. The port was in flames, the position hopeless."

Frith: "Frith listened and felt her hearth dying within her. He was saying that he would sail the Channel in his little boat."

"The girl was young, primitive, inarticulate. She did not understand war, or what had happened in France, or the meaning of the trapped army, bu the blood within her told her that here was danger"

Frith: "Philip! Must 'ee go? You'll not come back. Why must it be 'ee?"

Rhayader: "They are lost and storm-driven and harried, like the Princesse Perdue you found and brought to me out of the marshes many years ago, and we healed her. They need help, my dear, as our wild creatures have needed help, and that is why I must go."

Frith:" Frith stared at Rhayader. He had changed so. For the first time she saw that he was no longer ugly or mis-shapen or grotesque, but very beautiful."

Frith:"Things turmoiling in her own soul, crying to be said,and she did not know how to say them."

Frith:" I'll come with 'ee! Philip."

Rhayader: "Your place in the boat would cause a soldier to be left behind, and another, and another. I must go alone."

Rhayader: "He waved and called back:"Good-bye! Will you look after the birds until I return, Frith?"

Frith:"I will take care of t' birds. God-speed, Philip."

"The picture and the things she saw in it stirred her as nothing ever had before, for much of Rhayader's soul had gone into it."

Frith:"Frith saw no longer the snow goose but the soul of Rhayader taking farewell of her before departing for ever."

Frith:"Frith's tears were stilled. She stood watching silently long after the goose  had vanished."

Frith:"Each night, for many weeks thereafter, Frith came to the lighthouse and fed the pinioned birds. Then one early morning a German pilot on a dawn raid mistook the old abandoned light for an active military objective,..."

Book Source: The Snow Goose Paul Gallico 1941 Penguin Books