Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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• Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance,…
• She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
• She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
• She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
• She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
• My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked.…
• Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.
• There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
• Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where…
• He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling…
• It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She…
• It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.
• It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
• She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the…
• The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in…
• What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met…
• When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the…
• Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see…
• It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
• What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been…

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