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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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Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
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At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.
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If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.
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Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.
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I'd like to have a word for 'the sadness inspired by failing restaurants' as well as for 'the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.
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Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.
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I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
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A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.
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There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.
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I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.
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Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
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She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
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He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
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It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.
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On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
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She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.
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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
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I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.
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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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We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...
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My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.
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The window was still open. Mr Lisbon said. I don't think we'd ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she'd go on jumping out of it forever
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The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
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Born:
March 8, 1960
(age 64)
Bio:
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot.
Known for:
Middlesex (2002)
The Marriage Plot (2011)
The Virgin Suicides (1993)
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