Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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• I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so - he…
• We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...
• They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves…
• But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
• The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too…
• We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once…
• She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.
• girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
• And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time,…
• Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
• She wanted out of the decorating scheme.
• and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
• I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend
• that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep
• 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 knew…
• Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then,…
• Scars crossed her welded wrists.
• The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel…
• Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
• I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could…

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