Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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• Every letter was a love letter.
• She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.
• Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.
• They're just memories now. Time to write them off.
• You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems!
• Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.
• Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in…
• The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if…
• But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.
• Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction…
• That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut…
• When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.
• Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of…
• That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within
• The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained…
• The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair
• To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.
• -Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving…
• College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their…
• People don't save other people. People save themselves.

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