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“Nous savions que les filles étaient nos jumelles, que nous existions tous dans l'espace comme des animaux qui avaient la même peau, et qu'elles savaient tout de nous alors que nous étions incapables de percer leur mystère. Nous savions, enfin, que les filles étaient en réalité des femmes déguisées, qu'elles comprenaient l'amour et même la mort, et que notre boulot se bornait à créer le bruit qui semblait tant les fasciner.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

“Elles nous avaient fait participer à leur folie, parce que nous ne pouvions faire autrement.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

“le monde est émotion à l’état pur, allant et venant entre ses créatures.”

Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides: Citations en anglais

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.”

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“They're just memories now. Time to write them off.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“The zipper opened all the way down our spines.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“The time has to be right and the heart willing.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre 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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.”

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Source: The Virgin Suicides

“The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Middlesex

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Middlesex

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre 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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Middlesex

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

“Scars crossed her welded wrists.”

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Source: The Virgin Suicides

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre 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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre 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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

“Every letter was a love letter.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

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

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre 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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre 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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Middlesex

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“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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre 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.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Middlesex

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“She wanted out of that decorating scheme.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides livre Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

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