"Brooklyn" Quotes
"Brooklyn" by Colm Tóibín follows a young Irish woman named Eilis Lacey as she navigates love, identity, and homesickness after emigrating to 1950s New York.
fiction | Published in 2010
Quotes
You will feel so homesick that you will want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it.
I wish that I could stop feeling that I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland.
Her body was thin and feeble, but her spirit was indomitable.
The world was suddenly full of things that had never been mentioned in books.
You have to think ahead. You can't be a child all your life.
I have nobody who will miss me enough to make me stay.
It was like waking up one morning and discovering that you had changed.
People who have gone through something dreadful at last allow themselves to feel alive.
I have imagined this moment for such a long time, and now that it is here, I cannot believe it.
I don't know what I want, which makes me sad and confused.
