Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides Download Open image ““Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.”” — Jeffrey Eugenides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in this endless night, a spark still burns, fragile, defiant, a beacon for the lost. And as the storm deepens, I remember that… — Dark Night Beacon Copy Share Image
“So dark. Endless darkness, eternal. It was not the absence of light that was so frightening as the absence of thought, of knowledge, of… — Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
“...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
“The more I stepped away from darkness, the less it felt like home.” — Mitali Meelan Copy Share Image
“I was lost in a void of perpetual darkness. Disconnected from myself. Turned inside out. No sign of life. Eventually, the darkness was my… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
“The flames surround me, and I feel myself slipping further from life, thinning to only the faintest shiver in the air. I yearn for… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“The night is dark and full of terrors...but the fire burns them all away." ―Melisandre” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“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… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image