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It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life. View quote
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Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. View quote
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Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. View quote
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All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water. View quote
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It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors. View quote
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Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction. View quote
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When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep. View quote
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Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century. View quote
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If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely. View quote
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She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else. View quote
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that since Cecilia's suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't know what you're feeling. I won't even pretend. View quote
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I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. View quote
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Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them. View quote
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In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable. View quote
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The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison. View quote
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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. View quote
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it's amazing what you can get used to. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. View quote
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I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. View quote
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I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. View quote
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The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one. View quote
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