Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
3145She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
3143 Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words.
I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret".
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.
3741 We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...
2041 In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
3648 It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
4064 Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.
4903 There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
3576 The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.
4474 Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for some reason.
2144 O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth;
Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth
With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.
She hath no questions, she hath no replies.
2195 Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide
1068 Fin da piccole sapevano quanto poco valore il mondo attribuisse ai libri, e non perdevano tempo a leggerli. Mentre io, anche adesso, continuo a credere che quei puntini neri su fondo bianco abbiano il più alto dei significati, che se insisto a scrivere potrò cogliere l'arcobaleno della coscienza e rinchiuderlo in un barattolo.
2025 The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
4695 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.
3362 At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.
2962 Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.
4078 My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
4730 Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.
1523 Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
2811 Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.
3622 They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.
1143 Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
3887 Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody else.
4355 He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
2993 Often he had the impression that the person answering questions from the scratchy armchair was a dummy he was controlling, that this had been true throughout his life, and that his life had become so involved with operating the dummy that he, the ventriloquist, had ceased to have a personality, becoming just an arm stuffed up the puppet's back.
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