504 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

The matter with us is you.

Still point of the turning world.

This can’t be true but I remember it.

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters’ inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

Real life doesn’t live up to writing about it.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn’t get to herself.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it’s a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn’t hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn’t write about it.

The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn’t hit us the way it does.