Jeffrey Eugenides: Likeness

Jeffrey Eugenides is Novelist, short story writer, teacher. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.”

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

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

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

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

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot