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Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Thinking back, we decided the girls had been trying to talk to us all along, to elicit our help, but we had been to infatuated to see it. Thinking back, we decided the girls had been trying to talk to us all along, to elicit our help, but we had been to infatuated to see it.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Eating is natural. Gaining weight is your choice. Eating is natural. Gaining weight is your choice.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems. But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working. It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: My mother pictured a daughter as a counterinsurgent: a fellow lover of lapdogs, a seconder of proposals to attend the Ice Capades. In My mother pictured a daughter as a counterinsurgent: a fellow lover of lapdogs, a seconder of proposals to attend the Ice Capades. In
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: She wanted out of that decorating scheme. She wanted out of that decorating scheme.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: That was when I realized a shocking thing. I couldn't become a man without becoming The Man. Even if I didn't want to. That was when I realized a shocking thing. I couldn't become a man without becoming The Man. Even if I didn't want to.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by. I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: I never know what I feel until it's too late. I never know what I feel until it's too late.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Whatever happened now would become the truth, that whatever he seemed to be would become what he was - already an American, in other words. Whatever happened now would become the truth, that whatever he seemed to be would become what he was - already an American, in other words.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution. In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light. He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has. Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: It's then I smell smoke. "You even smoke while you brush your teeth?" She looks at me sideways. "Menthol", she says. It's then I smell smoke. "You even smoke while you brush your teeth?"
She looks at me sideways. "Menthol", she says.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look. Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Plate, nor did Mrs. Bates, who had once wept when we set Plate, nor did Mrs. Bates, who had once wept when we set
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol. This is my country,' Lefty said, and to prove it, he did a very American thing: he reached under the counter and produced a pistol.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: We thought green was cheerful, but not too cheerful. Green was also serious. We thought green was cheerful, but not too cheerful. Green was also serious.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch. No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames. Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich. There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain. This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season. The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much. You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep. When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: it's amazing what you can get used to. it's amazing what you can get used to.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had. His lost look of a man who realized that all this dying was going to be the only life he ever had.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: It seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for everything that ever happened, ever. It seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for everything that ever happened, ever.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am. I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: I did what any loving, loyal daughter would have done who had been raised on a diet of Hercules movies. I did what any loving, loyal daughter would have done who had been raised on a diet of Hercules movies.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Little by little he'd change; he'd get older; everything he felt now would fade into memory and then into nothing. Little by little he'd change; he'd get older; everything he felt now would fade into memory and then into nothing.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: I would handle the deep intellectual matters, like vibrators; she would handle the social sphere. I would handle the deep intellectual matters, like vibrators; she would handle the social sphere.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: It is said: San Francisco is where young people go to retire. It is said: San Francisco is where young people go to retire.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Semiotic was the form Zipperstein's midlife crisis had taken... Instead of buying sports car, he'd bought deconstrution. Semiotic was the form Zipperstein's midlife crisis had taken... Instead of buying sports car, he'd bought deconstrution.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: pulled out a blue bandanna, pulled out a blue bandanna,
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken. Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Every second is eternal Every second is eternal
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: We were reckless with the implications We were reckless with the implications
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: The monster always approaches from the direction you least expect. The monster always approaches from the direction you least expect.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with. Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: He had the wit of a store mannequin. He had the wit of a store mannequin.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. Jimmy Zizmo, crouching over the Packard's wheel has already changed past understanding. Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. Jimmy Zizmo, crouching over the Packard's wheel has already changed past understanding.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Dr. Philbosian smelled like an old couch, of hair oil and spilled soup, of unscheduled naps. Dr. Philbosian smelled like an old couch, of hair oil and spilled soup, of unscheduled naps.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Biosynthesis and peripheral action of testosterone, Biosynthesis and peripheral action of testosterone,
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Virgin suicideWhat was that she cried?No use in stayin'On this holocaust rideShe gave me her cherryShe's my virgin suicide Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair. Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: There's a time to talk and a time for silence. There's a time to talk and a time for silence.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken. When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in ... We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in ...
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love? A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love?
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted another. It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted another.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back. Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: And you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score. And you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: By cutting off my hair I was punishing myself for loving someone so much. I was trying to be stronger. By cutting off my hair I was punishing myself for loving someone so much. I was trying to be stronger.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: There's a scabbard for every dagger,' the madam says in Turkish as the whores laugh. There's a scabbard for every dagger,' the madam says in Turkish as the whores laugh.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: This can't be true but I remember it. This can't be true but I remember it.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: And she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world. And she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth. We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer. You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: And the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks. And the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me. We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: This whole country's stolen. This whole country's stolen.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room. A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age. I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Buffeted but not broken. Buffeted but not broken.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Her head appears to be on fire but that is only a trick of the light. It was June 13, eighty-three degrees out, under sunny skies. Her head appears to be on fire but that is only a trick of the light. It was June 13, eighty-three degrees out, under sunny skies.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage. The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: And left no doubt that Cecilia had done violence to herself. And left no doubt that Cecilia had done violence to herself.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: The trees like lungs filling with airMy sister, the mean one, pulling my hair The trees like lungs filling with air
My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time. It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Gathered in the folding chairs of the meeting room, they made a diverse group with the drug-addicted, a perfect democracy of collapse. Gathered in the folding chairs of the meeting room, they made a diverse group with the drug-addicted, a perfect democracy of collapse.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: People don't save other people. People save themselves. People don't save other people. People save themselves.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Real life doesn't live up to writing about it Real life doesn't live up to writing about it
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather. A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us. The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: You're a stone fox," he said, and took off. You're a stone fox," he said, and took off.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun. Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb! It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb!
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies. It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help. I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific. Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.
Jeffrey Eugenides quotes: Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination. Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

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