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“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Despair

“The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

God , Girl , Decision

“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

World

“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

Love , Death , Birth

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

Jeffrey Eugenides
For Team

“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

People , Understanding , Sense , Suicide

“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

Personality

“All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Water , Winter

“Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Suicide