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“You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“To start with, look at all the books.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“Who are you, anyway?
-Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“This can't be true but I remember it.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Variant: There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
Source: The Marriage Plot

“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“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 book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex