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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