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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
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
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.
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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.
— 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
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
Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
— 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
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in ...
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A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love?
— 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
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
And you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.
— 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
All wisdom ends in paradox.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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
I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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
Oh gods, stairs.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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
Parties bring my misantrophy into focus.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
— 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
Two things mania did were to keep you up all night and to enable nonstop sex: pretty much the definition of college.
— 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
Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.
— 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
