Some of the quotes I underlined in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆
“This child was born of parents who could read and write,’ she said simply. ‘To me, this is a great wonder.”
“Francie spent her first night on earth sleeping snugly between her mother and Sissy.”
“He had a wife and two babies before he was old enough to vote.”
“I do not talk like no Wop,’ cried Francie. ‘I talk like... like... God talks.”
“His heart was willing but his skill was nil.”
“She had the knowledge that she was small but she lacked the courage to be otherwise.”
“She felt that she was a definite part of something, part of a community gathered under a leader for the one purpose.”
“Sometimes his happiness was so overflowing that he couldn’t hold it and he’d cut a dance caper to spill some of it out.”
“Although Katie had this same flair for coloring an incident and Johnny himself lived in a half-dream world, yet they tried to squelch these things in their own child.”
“It was true then- what Granma had said: that the Rommely women had the gift of seeing the ghosts of their beloved dead.”