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Knew Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long…
- We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors…
- We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating…
- We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had…
- She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.
- It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you…
- Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life…
- You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and…
- We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't…
More Knew Quotes
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen. — Erykah Badu
- Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about,… — Russell Baker
- For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally. — Alec Baldwin