Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Briar Rose.
Mortality Quotes
"You may not get another…another…chance. Not before she…" She couldn't bring herself to finish the sentence, as if death were too final a punctuation. (2.47)
Family Quotes
"This was a promise to Gemma," said Becca, hanging up and feeling—as she usually did after arguing with one of her sisters—morally oppressed. (16.86)
Faith Quotes
More people came to the house than had attended the services because most of their neighbors—men and women who had known Gemma for over forty years—were Polish and Catholic and made uncomfortab...
Identity Quotes
"She thinks—she believes—she once lived in a castle! … "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. A goddamned fairy-tale princess, Becca. With a Yiddish accent. If she's not crazy believing it—you a...
Storytelling Quotes
"It's not that," Becca said, trying to explain. "I mean, it's not that I believe it. Or even that she does. It's like the story is…like a metaphor…." (2.57)
Memory and the Past Quotes
"The castle is yours. It is all I have to leave to you. You must find it. The castle in the sleeping woods. Promise me." (2.77)
Avoidance Quotes
She couldn't bring herself to finish the sentence, as if death were too final a punctuation. (2.47)
Warfare Quotes
"But the refugees—and there were nearly a thousand of them—were living high at the taxpayers' expense. And this, of course, after all we had been put through because of the war." (12.92)