“A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I should also mention, with the vestigial pang of a once flat-chested girl, Desdemona's voluptuous figure.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?"… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
