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“That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

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

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

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“We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in…”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“People don't save other people. People save themselves.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“They're just memories now. Time to write them off.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“The zipper opened all the way down our spines.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“The time has to be right and the heart willing.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides