Marriage Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

11 Marriage quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

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Eugenides’ character‑driven style surfaces in his musings on partnership. This short set offers a modern, literary take on how love evolves across time and circumstance.

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“We Greeks get married in circles, to impress upon ourselves the essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find…

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Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in…

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They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

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“It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted…

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

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“Find the Bad Guy means how, when you’re arguing with your spouse, both people are trying to win the argument. Who didn’t…

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“Tessio Zizmo had been a virgin when she married Milton Stephanides at the age of 22. Their engagement,which coincided with the Second…

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“Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona…

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Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and…

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“...the novel had reached its apogee with the marriage plot and had never recovered from its disappearance. In the days when success…

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

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“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.”

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“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.”

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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.

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

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“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…

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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.…

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“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,…

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“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…

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“Her face was calm, but inside she was tense.”

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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…

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I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

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Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

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We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters,…

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You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

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Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

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