Jeffrey Eugenides today.
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, Middlesex
All wisdom ends in paradox.
--Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
--Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
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, Middlesex
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, The Marriage Plot
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in.
--Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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, Middlesex
All wisdom ends in paradox.
--Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
--Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
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, Middlesex
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, The Marriage Plot
We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in.
--Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
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