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“Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“During a warm winter rain… the basins of her collarbones collected water.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

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“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

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“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

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“The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

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“So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

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“it's amazing what you can get used to.”

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“Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

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“The trees like lungs filling with air
My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“Scars crossed her welded wrists.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

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“College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“Every letter was a love letter.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

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“Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

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“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What mycould never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

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“She wanted out of that decorating scheme.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides