Love Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

Every letter was a love letter.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Adolescents tend to seek love where they can find it.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

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So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

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We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed…

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If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write…

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“Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents?”

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If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

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I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than…

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“[...] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.”

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no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.

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The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were…

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-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody…

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“I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love.…

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Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight.…

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“…hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings.”

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But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And…

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“She used a line from Trollope's Barchester Towers as an epigraph:"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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“He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable…

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We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish…

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Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that…

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You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell…

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

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Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay.…

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“It is perhaps in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony…

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“What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt. It was almost worth it. This dependency…

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“For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to…

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I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in…

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“We became acquainted with starry skies the girls had gazed at while camping years before, and the boredom of summers traipsing from…

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“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…

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“There had never been a funeral in our town before, at least not during our lifetimes. The majority of dying had happened…

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“A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky…

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For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer…

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He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was…

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But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

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“Aphrodite put off her famous belt, in which all the charms of love are woven, potency, desire, lovely whispers, and the force…

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“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

Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very…

— Jeffrey Eugenides