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
“It is perhaps in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony… — 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
“We became acquainted with starry skies the girls had gazed at while camping years before, and the boredom of summers traipsing from… — 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
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed… — 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
I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them...People… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“There had never been a funeral in our town before, at least not during our lifetimes. The majority of dying had happened… — 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
“When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt. It was almost worth it. This dependency… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“[...] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.” — 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
