Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Everything That Rises Must Converge.
Family Quotes
Julian did not like to consider all she did for him, but every Wednesday night he braced himself and took her. (3)
Race Quotes
"They should rise, yes, but on their own side of the fence." (24)
Society and Class Quotes
Since this had been a fashionable neighborhood forty years ago, his mother persisted in thinking they did well to have an apartment in it. (5)
Suffering Quotes
He walked along, saturated in depression, as if in the midst of his martyrdom he had lost his faith. (10)
Religion Quotes
[…] [Julian] appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him. (2)