Jeffrey Eugenides Short Quotes

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Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

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It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.

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But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

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

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

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The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season.

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

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A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

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

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And she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

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

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It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

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

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It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

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

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

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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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She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.

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Girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

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Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

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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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The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

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

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I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

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Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

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The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

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She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

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