Alive Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he…

— Anthony Marra

That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on.

— Karen Marie Moning

It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it…

— Laini Taylor

...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on…

— J.R. Ward

“She stared at her father's lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her…

— Cixin Liu

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her…

— Milan Kundera

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain,…

— Jodi Picoult

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the…

— Edith Wharton

By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.

— Koushun Takami

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water,…

— Hans Christian Andersen