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A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. — Jeffrey Eugenides

It's a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place. — Jeffrey Eugenides

... hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

I never know what I feel until it's too late. — Jeffrey Eugenides

If they were going to kill you, would they knock? — Jeffrey Eugenides

Everyone in the room was so spectral-looking that Madeleine's natural healthiness seemed suspect, like a vote for Reagan. — Jeffrey Eugenides

In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Out past the weekly glimpsed windows, out past the street, lived the world, which had, Old Mrs. Karafilis knew, been dying for years. — Jeffrey Eugenides

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. — Megan Whalen Turner

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. — Jeffrey Eugenides

But in 1922 it was still a new thing to be a machine. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has. — Jeffrey Eugenides

It's then I smell smoke. "You even smoke while you brush your teeth?"
She looks at me sideways. "Menthol", she says. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Certain "advanced" girls understood. Others, like me, thought: knife wound, bear attack. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I know what it's like to be high. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Attolia had brushed Eugenides's cheek almost shyly before sending him with a wave back to his own couch. — Megan Whalen Turner

We thought green was cheerful, but not too cheerful. Green was also serious. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan. — Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme. — Jeffrey Eugenides

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much. — Jeffrey Eugenides

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep. — Jeffrey Eugenides

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose. — Jeffrey Eugenides

it's amazing what you can get used to. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

And you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place. — Jeffrey Eugenides

All wisdom ends in paradox. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in ... — Jeffrey Eugenides

No reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The time has to be right and the heart willing. — Jeffrey Eugenides

A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love? — Jeffrey Eugenides

Her face was calm, but inside she was tense. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back. — Jeffrey Eugenides

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up. — Megan Whalen Turner

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

I should also mention, with the vestigial pang of a once flat-chested girl, Desdemona's voluptuous figure. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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 life. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Semiotic was the form Zipperstein's midlife crisis had taken... Instead of buying sports car, he'd bought deconstrution. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides

That since Cecilia's suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. Jimmy Zizmo, crouching over the Packard's wheel has already changed past understanding. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Lefty and Desdemona's cousin, Sourmelina, had gone to America and was living now in a place called Detroit. Built — Jeffrey Eugenides

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination. — Jeffrey Eugenides

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Don't waste your time on life. — Jeffrey Eugenides

We found each other for so long before we lost each other. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room. — Megan Whalen Turner

Even the air seemed on fire, subtly aflame with energy as it does when you are young, when the synapses are firing wildly and death is far away. — Jeffrey Eugenides

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer. — Jeffrey Eugenides

And the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The zipper opened all the way down our spines. — Jeffrey Eugenides

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I went to church. It didn't help. In those days that was the best place to meet a girlfriend. In church! All of us praying to be different. — Jeffrey Eugenides

They're just memories now. Time to write them off. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. — Jeffrey Eugenides

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me. — Jeffrey Eugenides

She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. — Jeffrey Eugenides

This whole country's stolen. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Stomach-sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. This — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

And she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Adolescents tend to seek love where they can find it. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There's a scabbard for every dagger,' the madam says in Turkish as the whores laugh. — Jeffrey Eugenides

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. — Jeffrey Eugenides

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time. — Jeffrey Eugenides

This can't be true but I remember it. — Jeffrey Eugenides

She didn't want to be liberated from her emotions, but to have their importance confirmed. — Jeffrey Eugenides

That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within — Jeffrey Eugenides

By cutting off my hair I was punishing myself for loving someone so much. I was trying to be stronger. — Jeffrey Eugenides

But then she came closer and we saw the light in her eyes we have been looking for ever since. — Jeffrey Eugenides

A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Dust balls lined the steps. A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There's a time to talk and a time for silence. — Jeffrey Eugenides

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water. — Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I was unemployable when I got out of college. — Jeffrey Eugenides

We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth. — Jeffrey Eugenides