Jeffrey Eugenides quotes

Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist known for his intricate storytelling and exploration of complex human emotions. His most acclaimed works include "The Virgin Suicides" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Middlesex". He continues to influence contemporary literature with his unique voice and thought-provoking narratives. Here are 130 of his quotes:

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

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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.

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People don't save other people. People save themselves.

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In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

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This can't be true but I remember it.

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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.

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We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

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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?

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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

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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.

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Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

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Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

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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.

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There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

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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.

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