504 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

And of course there was the sheer physical fact of her, the blood-tinged blade that she was, the riot of color that caught everyone’s attention.

And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.

La observó con tal concentración que hasta dejó de existir

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.