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
Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a… — 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.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It was as if, before she'd met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that?… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer… — 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
You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt… — 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
