Brooklyn Quotes Flashcards
She wished…
She wished that she could take it downstairs and read it to her mother
And you
And you kept this from me all this time?
He was
He was crying for everything, for rose who was dead, for her mother who was lonely, for Eilis who would have to go and for himself who would be left
If I hear
If I hear the slightest sound upstairs, I often think it must be rose
For a second
For a second it came into her mind as something she could tell rose and that rose would love, but then she realized with a sense of regret close to actual pain that rose was dead
Underneath
Underneath the silence of the dead
You’re homesick
You’re homesick, that’s all. Everybody gets it. But it passes
She was nobody
She was nobody here. It was not just that she had no friends and family; rather that she was a ghost in the room
It occurred to
It occurred to her that she was already feeling the she would need to remember this room, her sister, this scene, as though from a distance
She did not
She did not allow herself to conclude that she did not want to go
She thought
She though that’s she was going to lose this world forever
None of them
None of them could help her. She had lost all of them
… She had longed
She had longed so much for the familiarity of these rooms that she had presumed she would be happy and relieved to step back into them, but instead on this morning all she could do was count the days before she went back
She has been
She had been far away from tony, far away, basking in the ease of what had suddenly become familiarity
In the morning
In the morning it was hard not to think she was roses ghost, being fed and spoken to in the same way
