Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Jeffrey Eugenides quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
It's a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.
— 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
'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
— Kim Edwards
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
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
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
She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The matter with us is you.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Certain "advanced" girls understood. Others, like me, thought: knife wound, bear attack.
— 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
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
A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love?
— Jeffrey Eugenides
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.
— 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
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in ...
— 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
And you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score.
— 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
Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Her face was calm, but inside she was tense.
— 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
This can't be true but I remember it.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Parties bring my misantrophy into focus.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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
A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Martinis in a can, Callie. We live in an age of wonders.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
He left in a state of distraction and a winter coat.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
You're a stone fox," he said, and took off.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb!
— Jeffrey Eugenides
It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Don't waste your time on life.
— 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
We found each other for so long before we lost each other.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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
We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
— 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
Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
By cutting off my hair I was punishing myself for loving someone so much. I was trying to be stronger.
— 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
That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within
— Jeffrey Eugenides
She didn't want to be liberated from her emotions, but to have their importance confirmed.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
All wisdom ends in paradox.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
And she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.
— 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