“Let me tell you something. Do you know why those Turkish girls cover their faces? You think it’s because of religion? No. It’s because otherwise no one can stand to look at them!” — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The aping of shared customs is an indispensable step in the process of individualisation” — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“It was a little like Into the Sands, with Claude Barron, which she'd seen a couple of weeks ago. In that picture Claude Barron… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“After denuding the trunk, the men left to denude others, and for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stunted arms,… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“What could I tell her? That that was the whole point of having long hair? To keep it in my face? Maybe I didn’t… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
We couldnt imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. Do you know why those Turkish girls cover their faces? You think it’s because of religion? No. It’s because… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was plowing through late James, or the pages about agrarian… — Jeffery Eugenides Copy Share Image
