I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record… — 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
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed… — 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
The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season. — 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
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was… — 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
On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they… — 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
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about… — 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
“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing -… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world — 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
