Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

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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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Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

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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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There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.

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A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.

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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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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'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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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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If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.

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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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