Jeffrey Eugenides

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“This whole country's stolen.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

My goal in life is to become an adjective,

— Jeffrey Eugenides

To start with, look at all the books.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“You're a stone fox," he said, and took off.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

it's amazing what you can get used to.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“pulled out a blue bandanna,”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

This can't be true but I remember it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“He left in a state of distraction and a winter coat.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Bármerre menekültem is, mindenütt téged láttalak magam előtt.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“...and the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Ez is olyan, mint a képek a múzeumban – állapította meg –, csak arra próbálnak ürügyet találni, hogy meztelen nőket mutogassanak.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The notion made us dizzy, and we lay down on the Larsons' carpet, which smelled of pet deodorizer and, deeper down, of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It's then I smell smoke. "You even smoke while you brush your teeth?" She looks at me sideways. "Menthol", she says.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“He was like a statue being chiseled away from the inside, hollowed out. As more and more of his thoughts gave him…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in 'sadness,' 'joy,' or 'regret' . . . It oversimplifies…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Tessie and I lay in our chairs, listening to wax being violently removed. 'Oh my!' cried the large lady. 'Is nothing,' belittled…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I'd never been this close to the Obscure Object before. It was hard on my organism. My nervous system launched into "Flight…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It was the custom in those days for passengers leaving for America to bring balls of yarn on deck. Relatives on the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Ez idő tájt szokásban volt az Amerikába indulók között, hogy színes fonalgombolyagokat vittek magukkal a fedélzetre, egyik végüket kidobták a partra, hogy…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“What were he and his friends doing, really, other than hanging from a branch, sticking their tongues out to catch the sweetness?…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Callie rises up inside me, wearing my skin like a loose robe. She sticks her little hands into the baggy sleeves of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It was like that Talking Head song. „And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?' … And you may tell…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“And so now, having been born, I'm going to rewind the film, so that my pink blanket flies off, my crib scoots…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“We had rarely seen our fathers in work boots before, toiling in the earth and wielding brand-new root clippers. They struggled with…

— Jeffrey Eugenides