"She wanted a book to take her places……" — Jeffrey Eugenides

"She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself."

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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213 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

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I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
I was unemployable when I got out of college.
I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and…
My goal in life is to become an adjective,
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to…
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each…
Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to…
In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in…
The worst thing about religion was religious people.

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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