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Jeffrey Eugenides

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We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#world #parenting

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.


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#suicide

You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#the-virgin-suicides #you-never-get-over-it #suicide

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


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#marriage

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#teenagers

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.


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#love #love

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


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#war #change

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.


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#humor #humor

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#love #lovers #romance #separation #love

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.


— Jeffrey Eugenides


#marriage






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" He also says he has been haunted by the decline of Detroit. Not “audience.

The Virgin Suicides has been filmed while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award the International Dublin Literary Award and France's Prix Médicis. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993) Middlesex (2002) and The Marriage Plot (2011).

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