Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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• The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.
• The time has to be right and the heart willing.
• Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.
• You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended…
• What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a…
• All wisdom ends in paradox.
• Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes…
• This can't be true but I remember it.
• Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. So do boys…
• Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of…
• She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.
• If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
• All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter…
• So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.
• That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s…
• Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you…
• Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one…
• In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the…
• To start with, look at all the books.
• There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

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