Jeffrey Eugenides quotes

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in... View quote
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She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside. View quote
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People don't save other people. People save themselves. View quote
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In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life. View quote
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In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. View quote
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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. View quote
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There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. View quote
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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. View quote
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College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity. View quote
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Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
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. View quote
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The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. View quote
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This can't be true but I remember it. View quote
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Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it. View quote
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We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me. View quote
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What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like? View quote
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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth. View quote
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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. View quote
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Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. View quote
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It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. View quote
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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. View quote
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There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home. View quote
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Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye. View quote
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