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“A piece of motherly advice,” Roseanna said. “I’m letting you down. I get that. People always will. That’s not as much of a downer as it sounds. There’s a reason people will always let you down. It’s because they came to this weird planet
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“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
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“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
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“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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