I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that… — 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
My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?"… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I'm quickly approaching the moment of discovery: of myself by myself, which was something I knew all along and yet didn't know;… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Discussing it later, many of us felt we suffered a mental dislocation at that moment, which only grew worse through the course… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond. — 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
It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Lefty had seen Desdemona undress many times, but usually as no more than a shadow and never in moonlight. She had never… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“At the time, infatuated with Nietzsche (and half asleep), Leonard didn't want to get into this argument, the truth of which wasn't… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Women know what it means to… — 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
Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“But by the time Madeleine reached the age that Alwyn had been then, she realized that her sister's iconoclasm and liberationist commitments… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“It was probably true that he objectified women. He thought about them all the time, didn't he? He looked at them a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which… — 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
