Emma’s Reviews > A Tree Grows in Brooklyn > Status Update

“Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she’d have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them” (322).

“It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable” (174).

Absolutely loving this book so far.

“They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted” (159).

“There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory (163).