The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“...between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get OFF of. You can't get CLEAN from depression.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Whereas my grandfather was getting used to a much more terrifying reality. Holding my hand to keep his balance, as trees and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Mania was a mental state every bit as dangerous as depression. At first, however, it felt like a rush of euphoria. You… — 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
