Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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• Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.
• A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.
• It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you…
• Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.
• The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.
• Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
• They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
• It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
• They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him…
• Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.
• Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life…
• Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine…
• I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of…
• It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.
• He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
• There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
• Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.
• You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and…
• We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What…
• For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent…

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