Rain Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“[...] and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.

— Alexander Smith