Brooklyn Quotes

“She still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this world for ever, that she would never have an ordinary day again in this ordinary place, that the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar.”
― Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn

“Would a promise not be the same?”
“If you can promise, then you can easily do this,” he said.”
― Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn