Brooklyn Quotes
BROOKLYN – QUOTES (VITO MILANA)
PART 1: 1 – 49
Miss Kelly’s thick glasses made the expression on her face difficult to read (5)
Anyone who is anyone, comes into the shop and I hear everything (5)
Rose would think working behind the counter of a grocery shop was not good enough (6)
I’m hoping that she’s quick and sharp and dependable, but nowadays you can’t get that for love or money (10)
I’m just there until something turns up (11)
She remembered the darkness, the cold and the beautiful emptiness of the town (12)
A proper job will turn up. That’s what I’m praying for every day (21)
Parts of Brooklyn…are just like Ireland. They’re full of Irish (23)
She wondered if that could be true (24)
The same friends and neighbours, the same routines in the same streets (27)
It’ll kill me when she goes (28)
The rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar (30)
Giving up any real prospect of leaving this house herself and having her own house, with her own family (30)
Some people are nice, she said, and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer (32)
Time and patience would bring a snail to America (33)
I like my wage packet and my independence (36)
Never again the trunk. Never again going home to Liverpool. Just never again (39)
Convince herself that it was a dream, or it would not last, but her waking life….increasing as the night wore on (4Convince herself that it was a dream, or it would not last, but her waking life….increasing as the night wore on (44)
PART 2: 53 – 91
She could manage then to keep all thoughts of the day ahead of her mind (53)
…with Mss MacAdam, who had nothing good to say about anyone and had sniffed her nose disapprovingly if anyone passed by them who she thought was Italian or Jewish (56)
She hated it when Patty or Diana paid her too much attention to her. She was the new girl, and the youngest…(57)
Brooklyn changes every day, Miss Bartocci said as Father Flood nodded
Did not notice until the end of the meal that there were
PART 1: 1 – 49
Miss Kelly’s thick glasses made the expression on her face difficult to read (5)
Anyone who is anyone, comes into the shop and I hear everything (5)
Rose would think working behind the counter of a grocery shop was not good enough (6)
I’m hoping that she’s quick and sharp and dependable, but nowadays you can’t get that for love or money (10)
I’m just there until something turns up (11)
She remembered the darkness, the cold and the beautiful emptiness of the town (12)
A proper job will turn up. That’s what I’m praying for every day (21)
Parts of Brooklyn…are just like Ireland. They’re full of Irish (23)
She wondered if that could be true (24)
The same friends and neighbours, the same routines in the same streets (27)
It’ll kill me when she goes (28)
The rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar (30)
Giving up any real prospect of leaving this house herself and having her own house, with her own family (30)
Some people are nice, she said, and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer (32)
Time and patience would bring a snail to America (33)
I like my wage packet and my independence (36)
Never again the trunk. Never again going home to Liverpool. Just never again (39)
Convince herself that it was a dream, or it would not last, but her waking life….increasing as the night wore on (4Convince herself that it was a dream, or it would not last, but her waking life….increasing as the night wore on (44)
PART 2: 53 – 91
She could manage then to keep all thoughts of the day ahead of her mind (53)
…with Mss MacAdam, who had nothing good to say about anyone and had sniffed her nose disapprovingly if anyone passed by them who she thought was Italian or Jewish (56)
She hated it when Patty or Diana paid her too much attention to her. She was the new girl, and the youngest…(57)
Brooklyn changes every day, Miss Bartocci said as Father Flood nodded
Did not notice until the end of the meal that there were