504 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

He didn’t understand how she had bewitched him, nor why having done so she promptly forgot his existence, and in desperate moods he asked his mirror why the only girl he was crazy about was the only girl not crazy about him.

The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

The magisterial presence of all those potentially readable words stopped her in her tracks.

The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was like plowing through late James, or the pages about agrarian reform in Anna Karenina, until you suddenly got to a good part again, which kept on getting better and better until you were so enthralled that you were almost grateful for the previous dull stretch because it increased your eventual pleasure.

That’s the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

You used to be able to tell a person’s nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

I have a lot of novels that I haven’t finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it’s not going anywhere. I don’t publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn’t like?