“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”

—  Jeffrey Eugenides, book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

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