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Us 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…
- If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.
- 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…
- The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
- But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths…
- I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so - he…
- We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...
- 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…
- The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too…
- Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
- There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person…
- The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.
- All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter…
- We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What…
- 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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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino