504 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

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.

That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.