504 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

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.

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

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.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

This can't be true but I remember it.