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“What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had always loved…

— Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot

“Her father is fastened to his room, with his records and his drugs and his quiet. She crawls under her covers. It is her…

— Marie-Helene Bertino

“She wasn't all that interested, as a reader, in the reader. She was still partial to that increasingly eclipsed entity: the writer. Madeleine had…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she liked to read. The university’s “British and American Literature Course…

— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“Madeleine in her turn stared at him steadily, straight into his eyes, in a profound, strange way, as if seeking to read something there,…

— Guy de Maupassant

“CHAPTER II—MADELEINE”

— Victor Hugo

“Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Madeleine saved herself when she was abducted. Taken while she was a scared woman, one who'd once been veiwed as nothing more than weak…

— M.S. Willis

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!…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone…

— Marcel Proust

“Madeleine was enraptured by Garrison's tan complexion, which greatly differed from the pale boys of London. It wasn't actually the boys' fault, as the…

— Gitty Daneshvari