"that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep"
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213 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides has 213 quotes on this site.
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I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
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I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
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No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
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They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and…
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My goal in life is to become an adjective,
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My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
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I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to…
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If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each…
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Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to…
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In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in…
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The worst thing about religion was religious people.
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More Cecilia Quotes
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Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as…
— Ian Mcewan
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He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in…
— Mary Gaitskill
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Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out…
— Charles Bukowski
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We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do…
— Ian Mcewan
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You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you…
— Georgette Heyer
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Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel…
— Ian Mcewan
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Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one…
— Ian Mcewan
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Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had…
— Liane Moriarty
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A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted…
— Liane Moriarty
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Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia up in my bedroom. I got up to wash my face, when I…
— Simon And Garfunkel
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