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Back Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
- The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to…
- I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and…
- 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…
- Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.
- Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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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