“If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative. If you grew up… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Her father was about to have a heart attack, and my memories of her are now tinged with a blue wash of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“They said nothing and our parents said nothing, so we sensed how ancient they were, how accustomed to trauma, depressions, and wars.… — 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
“We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated… — 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
“We had rarely seen our fathers in work boots before, toiling in the earth and wielding brand-new root clippers. They struggled with… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents?” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“And so now, having been born, I'm going to rewind the film, so that my pink blanket flies off, my crib scoots… — 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
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