Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and… — 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
Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. — 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
He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they… — 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
