Jeffrey Eugenides - Thought Quotes

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Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly.

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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

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You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences. That was the hope.

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The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it.

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They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

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She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

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