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She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death. View quote
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Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has. View quote
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She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about. View quote
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It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time. View quote
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You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away. View quote
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are. View quote
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I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. View quote
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That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up. View quote
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We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too. View quote
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But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world. View quote
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What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself. View quote
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Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair. View quote
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They're just memories now. Time to write them off. View quote
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The zipper opened all the way down our spines. View quote
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The time has to be right and the heart willing. View quote
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He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken. View quote
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The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us. View quote
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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. View quote
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We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly. View quote
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We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. View quote
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In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws. View quote
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She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. View quote
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