“What could I tell her? That that was the whole point of having long hair? To keep it in my face? Maybe I didn’t look like Dorothy Hamill. Maybe I was even starting to bear a strong resemblance to our… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The aping of shared customs is an indispensable step in the process of individualisation” — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“It was a little like Into the Sands, with Claude Barron, which she'd seen a couple of weeks ago. In that picture Claude Barron… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“After denuding the trunk, the men left to denude others, and for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stunted arms,… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“What could I tell her? That that was the whole point of having long hair? To keep it in my face? Maybe I didn’t… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
We couldnt imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. Do you know why those Turkish girls cover their faces? You think it’s because of religion? No. It’s because… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was plowing through late James, or the pages about agrarian… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
