No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch. Jeffrey Eugenides More Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides More Quotes From Jeffrey Eugenides 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 best-wayway-to-livenurse They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. 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. Jeffrey Eugenides gardengirlsimple 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. Jeffrey Eugenides husbandpregnancydrama 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. Jeffrey Eugenides good-luckstupidbeautiful Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight. So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love. Jeffrey Eugenides crushnightboys Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason. Jeffrey Eugenides clockreasonworld It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body. Jeffrey Eugenides clockbodymorning 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. Jeffrey Eugenides rainwinterwater It was as if, before she`d met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she`d been before. Jeffrey Eugenides alivehalfblood The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully. Jeffrey Eugenides viewssleepfall If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely. Jeffrey Eugenides good-christianchristianpeople They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. Jeffrey Eugenides husbandcollegechildren This can't be true but I remember it. Jeffrey Eugenides being-trueremember Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils. Jeffrey Eugenides glimpseveilsfaces Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life. Jeffrey Eugenides eyesufferingblue All wisdom ends in paradox. Jeffrey Eugenides paradoxends 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. Jeffrey Eugenides wallovercomingthinking Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life. Jeffrey Eugenides fooleddietingthinking 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. Jeffrey Eugenides moodbad-mooddepression You don't understand me. I'm a teenager. I've got problems! Jeffrey Eugenides virgin-suicidesteenagerproblem
