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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
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 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
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
I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.
— 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
And the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
— 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
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Don't waste your time on life.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
— 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
Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
— Megan Whalen Turner
The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within
— 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
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