Jeffrey Eugenides: Quotes about people

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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot