Important Quotations Explained
1. If she had seen Ben, nothing would have made her believe that
practically every apartment contained a family, a Bible, and a dream that
one day enough could be scraped from those meager Friday night paychecks to
make Brewster Place a distant memory.
2. She stopped straining when it suddenly came to her that it wasn't
important what song it was—someone was waiting up for her.
3. They were now sung with the frantic determination of a people who
realized that the world was swiftly changing, but for some mystic, complex
reason their burden had not.
4. The young black woman and the old yellow woman sat in the kitchen
for hours, blending their lives so that what lay behind one and ahead of the
other became indistinguishable.
5. Ya know, you can't keep him runnin' away from things that hurt
him. Sometimes, you just gotta stay there and teach him how to go through
the bad and good of whatever comes.
