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Top 400 Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes (2024 Update)

Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Don’t waste your time on life.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “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.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “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.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “All wisdom ends in paradox.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “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.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It’s the thing that lets us say goodbye.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “We’re all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “She’d become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness”, “joy”, or “regret”. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “I’ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I’ve entered my story, I need them more than ever.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “People don’t save other people. People save themselves.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “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.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “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 Quote: “A girl’s not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it’s sweet.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “It is said: San Francisco is where young people go to retire.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “The Statue of Liberty’s gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “They’re just memories now. Time to write them off.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “In the end, it wasn’t death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it’s my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “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.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “The worst thing about religion was religious people.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people-and especially doctors- had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost.”
Jeffrey Eugenides Quote: “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 Quote: “At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for the first time.”
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