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Them Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them…
- When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what…
- That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I…
- Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been…
- I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
- 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…
- 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…
- We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
- In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to…
- 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…
- In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by…
- They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves…
- 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…
- our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
- 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…
- 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…
- They're just memories now. Time to write them off.
- 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…
- -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…
- Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine…
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