Last Night in Brooklyn Quotes

“But I'd learned when I was young, watching my lovelorn mother moping around our shitty apartment in Brooklyn and my sourpuss father skulking in his big Massachusetts home--money didn't fix feelings. You could be miserable in any fiscal circumstance.”
― Xóchitl González, Last Night in Brooklyn

“In the power of capitalism,” Devon replied”
― Xóchitl González, Last Night in Brooklyn

“Manhattan was dynamic”
― Xóchitl González, Last Night in Brooklyn

“El mono sabe en qué palo trepa,” she would say. The monkey knows the tree it climbs.”
― Xóchitl González, Last Night in Brooklyn: A Novel