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 Copy Share Image
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Mr. da Silva had a relevant quotation for everything that happened to him and in this way evaded real life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though… — 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'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don’t care if I write a great book anymore,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I am living through days as happy as those God keeps for his chosen people; and whatever becomes of me, I can… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Chucking her under her chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“In the end he became as fragmentary as the poems of Sappho he never succeeded in restoring, and finally one morning he… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“It seemed especially cruel, then, three days later, in the hospital when the doctor came into the room to tell Leonard that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“...the novel had reached its apogee with the marriage plot and had never recovered from its disappearance. In the days when success… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“There’s a thing they’ve figured out about love. Scientifically. They’ve done studies to find out what keeps couples together. Do you know… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“He didn't understand how she had bewitched him, nor why having done so she promptly forgot his existence, and in desperate moods… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“My goal in life is to become an adjective," Leonard said. "People would go around saying, 'That was so Bankheadian.' Or, 'A… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
